Word: presenter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announced that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., the national legislature, considered the Estonian decisions "at variance with the provisions of the current constitution of the U.S.S.R." The Presidium declared that it would consider the issue at its next meeting and "invited" Estonian representatives to be present...
Henry Lightcap, hero of the present novel, is a freestyle philosopher and romantic crank, madly in love with the West as it used to be and waitresses and barmaids as some of them still are. He shares Abbey's employment history, his age more or less (late middle), his marrying habit (Abbey's present wife is his fifth) and his sour gallantry. His position on beer-can tossing is the master's: the highway is an abomination, and thus the litter that sullies it is a blow for truth and beauty...
...weeks ago, the party's Central Committee announced a mid-1989 plenum to discuss the sensitive ethnic issue; the outcome may help shape a policy that goes beyond current disjointed prescriptions. In examining the Soviet Union's ethnic dilemma, TIME offers a report on the two republics that present Gorbachev with his greatest challenge: Estonia and Armenia...
After the movie, McCafferty asked those present to join Homeward Bound. About eight signed up, Lee said...
Following Ronald Reagan would present a daunting challenge to a recognized political giant, and Bush is certainly not that. Although he exceeded expectations yet again with his victory this week, Bush continues to be underestimated. He did not really win, the arguments go; he merely accepted the fruits of an inept Democratic campaign. Alternatively, it will be said that any Republican would have prevailed given the health of the economy. And then there is the argument that his artful handlers tricked the gullible voters with phony issues like crime and patriotism. Public resentment over that chicanery will soon overtake...