Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...others said the festivities areconveniently scheduled because October 11, thenight of the ball, is the only weekend night ofthe month that is not a Jewish holiday. They saidthe scheduling will present problems only forthose who wish to spend the long Columbus Day andYom Kippur weekend at home...
...public's fascination with Cuomo, who is perceived as the savior of American liberalism, reveals a style-over-substance trend in modern politics. Cuomo, the most cerebral of the present Presidential hopefuls--and the one most capable of articulating a liberal political vision--represents a packaging success as much as the well-financed D'Amato does...
Eventually, more than 200 million cu. ft. of water a day will gush through the 13-ft.-wide pipes, as much as is carried by a major river. Put another way, the Libyans will be pumping more than twice as much water a day as the present volume of OPEC's daily oil production. Some 2,500 miles of pipeline will stretch from the desert to the coast. The branches serving Tripoli alone will be more than 1,200 miles long, a distance roughly equal to that between Switzerland and Scotland...
...Chou En-lai came in 1920, some 70 years after Karl Marx left Paris for London and eight years after a young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...
With sanctions seen as a politically popular issue in an election year, the legislation rolled through the House on a 308-77 vote and through the Senate on a 84-14 tally. Two-thirds of the members present and voting are needed to override a veto...