Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main concerns of the Baha'i may already be shared by many at the present time--world peace. A booklet entitled "The Promise of World Peace" was published this year for the first time by the Universal House of Justice, a group of nine elected representatives who comprise the highest governing body of the Baha'i faith...
...booklet has been distributed to major world leaders, including President Reagan, and Baha'is on campus are trying to arrange a meeting to present it to Harvard President Derek C. Bok, Cook says...
...Correspondent Sandra Burton, who wrote the box on Aquino's decision to run for the Philippine presidency, the choice was the culmination of a reporting assignment that began in 1983, when Burton was present at the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Corazon's husband. Since that dramatic moment, no Western journalist has been more privy to Corazon Aquino's rise to power than Burton...
This week Ronald Reagan will present the Presidential Citizens Medal to Yeager, Rutan and his brother Burt, 43, Voyager's designer. Voyager, which reportedly cost $2 million and took five years to build, could wind up in the Smithsonian Institution. There, it would rest alongside such other craft as Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and the Mercury space capsule, an inspiration for future record breakers...
...reality, we live in several times at once, including yours. Perhaps because we have come to expect eruptive change as normal, we are less enthralled by it than we once were, and so choose an hour or an era in which we privately live irrespective of the insistent present. Modernism is committed to turmoil and revolution, but we have grown tired of the steady diet. The result is a sensibility that roves easily back into one's parents' more stately generation, and forward into the future where the imagination revels. Such range allows the mind a curious and salutary independence...