Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since 1957, was promoted to the honorific post of President. Last month Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who had commanded the Soviet navy since 1956, was replaced. Nikolai Tikhonov, who had been Premier since 1980 and was closely tied to the Brezhnev era, stepped down in September on a common Soviet pretext: poor health...
...UCLA and the University of Houston filled the Astrodome for a basketball game, just about the only pretext that weary barn has anymore for calling itself "the eighth wonder of the world." That was more than ten times the Cougars' customary audience, and so what figured to be a mystery for the ages was: Where did Texas find 52,000 basketball fans? But now the question is: How did it become the basketball capital of the world...
...centerpiece of its centennial winter carnival, St. Paul has a neogothic ice palace twelve stories tall. And with its Mardi Gras celebrations as a happy pretext, downtown Galveston has seven exotic ceremonial arches designed by a remarkable group of architects. The ice palace and the arches were both finished last week...
...other major cities. After five days of violence, dozens of people had been injured and about 500 detained. Police believe many of the rioters were left-wing provocateurs affiliated with terrorist groups. Frankfurt's police spokesman called the troublemakers in his city "professional rowdies who enjoy destruction under some pretext of political motivation...
...being aware of this, is trying to apply growing pressure on its allies so that they too should not trade with us in science- intensive products. What is more, the U.S., under the very same "national security" pretext, places a ban on deliveries of some types of such products to Western Europe and ever more frequently denies access to U.S. laboratories and scientific symposiums to representatives of Western Europe...