Word: presented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, the government seemed intent on depicting a mood of impending breakdown, as if trying to ensure its survival by convincing people that only the present leaders could keep blood from flowing in the streets. In a statement issued through the state-run ADN news agency last Wednesday, the government reported "growing indications of stormings of facilities and installations of the National People's Army." But no mention was made of where the assaults took place. In a separate appeal, from the army, generals warned that they would not permit disturbances at military installations and called on soldiers to fulfull...
...President Bush has not restored it. He recently vetoed a $15 billion foreign aid package because he feared that a tiny $15 million targeted for the U.N. Population Fund might help support abortion services in China. Getting birth-control information and devices to the 2.5 billion people beyond the present reach of family-planning programs will require $8 billion annually, a $5 billion rise from current levels. In 1989 the U.S. contributed $245 million to such programs, less in real terms than in 1979. Unless America reverses its present policy, it sends a message to the world that...
...certain is that the "middle class"--the broad spectrum of Americans for whom culture, outlook and life-opportunities are similar--is being bifurcated. The "two-tiered society" does not just describe two income brackets, but two ways of life and two ways of looking at life in America. ever-present evidence of homelessness...
Gordon Vidaver (Cardinal Camillo) and Ted Caplow (Giacomo) do manage to instill their characters with more emotion. The problem is that throughout the production they consistently present the same emotion. While Caplow seems perpetually confused, Vidaver appears to be frustrated with every person that crosses his path...
Those findings largely present only exaggerations of regular statistical variations among houses--variations that will continue even after randomization...