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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determined and very sophisticated effort to deal with the insurgency." Added one Western diplomat: "Aquino's success undoubtedly weakens the Communists' appeal to the so-called mass base. But one swallow does not a summer make." Unquestionably, Aquino's policy is a gamble. If she fails to make visible progress against economic problems, it is possible, even likely, that the insurgency will grow...
Another unique aspect of Harvard's teacher training program is its treatment of the all-critical first year after graduation, known as the induction year, says Edward P. Droge, a UTEP advisor who monitors new teachers' progress. Harvard's program is designed to provide support during that crucial year. "We do not want to just let them go and say good luck. It separates us from the pack," Droge says...
...pride movement got so strong it became somewhat embarrassing to admit that you owned a vagina or a penis. For all we know, women who used to fake vaginal orgasms for their hubbies began to fake clitoral ones for the women's movement. I guess you could call this progress of a sort. But do women really have to limit themselves to politically correct orgasms? Wanda, I stand before you as that rarest of males, a true feminist, calling for relief from the dogmas of Freudians and clitorists alike...
Negotiations resumed in late 1985, but little progress was made between Murdoch and Brenda Dean, the head of the largest print union. In mid-January Murdoch inaugurated the Wapping plant by producing a special Sunday Times section (it hailed itself as "a landmark in British newspaper publishing"). Furious at this calculated taunt, the printers struck Murdoch's papers on Fleet Street, fully expecting to bring the proprietor to his knees...
More than a week after Iran's surprise Feb. 9 invasion, the initial progress of the Iraqi counteroffensive was painfully slow. Iraqi tanks on the open salt flats were hampered by the marshy, rain-soaked terrain. Pilots, seeking to avoid loss of aircraft, flew too high for effective bombing. Only with the aid of intense cover fire from helicopter gunships and rocket launchers, whose missiles threw up sheets of flame in the Iranian lines, did the Iraqis advance at all. Confronted by this "moving wall of fire," as one eyewitness described it, the 50,000-man invasion force took huge...