Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leaders of the seven-party guerilla alliance individually have rejected the government's proposal and said they will go on fighting until Afghanistan is free of Soviet control. The leaders, all based in Pakistan, were to meet in Peshawar today to enable the alliance to present a united response...
...candid memo to United Airlines pilots last month, Captain Lloyd W. Barry, United's senior vice president for flight operations, warned, "I am increasingly concerned about the ever present threat of a midair collision. Within the last twelve months, United crews have averaged 6.3 near-misses per month. Any of these incidents could have resulted in a catastrophe had it not been for the professional skill of our pilots or, in some cases, just plain good luck...
Built in 1903 as a private dormitory for Harvard students, the building has survived many incarnations. At present, the horseshoe-shaped "three-decker" holds two bars, two restaurants, and several offices...
...involvement in Central America, made with equal skill. It failed at the box office: no one wanted to view our current indiscretions. Although we have come a long way in our intellectual understanding of what happened in Vietnam, there is still a failure to connect the past and the present. Safely enrobed in history, Vietnam cannot hurt us now. Platoon helps to bring it back to the present, to make it real for people who were infants...
General Wilmer (Ted Kazanoff), and the two friendly Wargame strategists, Jim (John Bottoms) and Pete (Richard Grusin), are especially well-played; revelling in the paradoxes of deterrence, they present an amusing but chilling spectacle...