Word: priore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NOTEBOOK: Last night's game was the first and, in all likelihood, last time the two teams will meet, according to Nelson. Because of a cancellation with another Division III team prior to the season, Suffolk was penciled in as one of the two non-Division I matches that Harvard's 26-game schedule allows...
Whatever the government's cause for hesitation, Mandela has none. Newspapers last week published the text of a document he had delivered to the government prior to his tea with Botha last July. In it he urged both the A.N.C. and the government to "meet urgently to negotiate an effective political settlement." But he also made it clear exactly where he stood. "White South Africa," he wrote, "must accept the plain fact that the A.N.C. will not suspend, to say nothing of abandoning, the armed struggle until the government agrees to negotiate" with recognized black leaders. In addition, wrote Mandela...
...standards of most young revolutions prior to the annus mirabilis of 1989, the event was rather tame. There was even some speculation that the Communist government had fomented the trouble to spread fear of disorder. Nonetheless, the sacking of Stasi headquarters epitomized a rising impatience with the pace of change in several East European countries. Increasingly aware of the strength they can wield in open demonstrations, many East Germans, Rumanians and Bulgarians seem to be growing more restive, more insistent in their demands. Their sights are often set, as they were in East Berlin, on the efforts of Communist officeholders...
...instrument we were issued for a march into the age of discontinuity. The telephone call is a breaking-and-entering that we invite by having telephones in the first place. Someone unbidden barges in and for an instant or an hour usurps the ears and upsets the mind's prior arrangements. Life proceeds in particles, not waves. The author Cyril Connolly wrote lugubriously about the sheer intimacy of intrusion that a telephone can manage. "Complete physical union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide -- and yet not quite real, for it stops when the telephone rings...
Harvard planners unveiled scaleddown plans for a hotel on the Gulf station site on Mass Ave. last week, drawing praise--and a few gripes--from some prior opponents of the project...