Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given up on this Administration, soblinded by the ghosts of the past that it cannotbegin to understand the present, much less shapethe future," Biden said. "In its advocacy of theReagan Doctrine, the present Administrationsubstitutes ideology for strategy...
ALTHOUGH PARKER has shunned current events in his books with few exceptions, Pale Kings and Princes is tied to the present, making a drug ring its subject. Still, instead of self-righteous preaching, Parker skillfully steers clear and delivers a hard-nosed mystery story with all of the Spenserian tactics: annoyance, poking around, and old-fashioned surveillance...
...percent of them children. As President Reagan's special advisory committee on South Africa concluded earlier this year, "Negotiations between Blacks and whites in South Africa appear unlikely until a further combination of internal and external pressures raises the financial and human costs of maintaining apartheid with its present white power monopoly...
...Soviet Union demands the punishment of war criminals, for whom it recognizes no statute of limitations, and is always ready to present all the necessary information to specialists concerned with these matters. In the past few years, 400 lawyers, including 100 from the U.S., have visited the Soviet Union in search of evidence. They had full access to our archival documents and to the hundreds of surviving witnesses, who readily told them about the crimes of the Nazis...
...rural blacks, between those in South Africa proper and those in the tribal homelands. It would be impossible to derive majority rule out of South Africa's racial, religious and political melange. The only satisfactory solution would be a confederation system, with several tiers of government. Continuation of the present system or the replacement proposed by the African National Congress would breed chaos and disunity and, eventually, lead to interracial and intertribal warfare...