Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the past quarter of a century I often fooled muself that indeed, I would participate in the dream that those years seemed to promise. The consequences were tragic and on occasions nearly fatal...
Syria's reluctance to storm the Shi'ite quarter reflected Assad's hope of reaching a political compromise. Despite the growing rivalry with Iran over Lebanon, Syria has no desire to rupture relations. The two countries, in fact, are strategic allies in Iran's 7 1/2-year-old war against their mutual enemy, Iraq. Moreover, the Syrian President knows that his troops could suffer high casualties in a clash with the entrenched Islamic zealots...
...amuse yourself with the film's budget, which some say was $63 million -- with about a quarter of that going to Sylvester Stallone. The producers insist that the excess was nowhere near so wretched, but Rambo III is still probably among the most expensive movies in history. So you naturally get to thinking that for such an investment the filmmakers ought to be able to come up with some scenery or spectacle more entrancing than sun and firelight glinting off Sly Stallone's ever rippling muscles...
...events help us to place ourselves in the continuum of American history so much as the assassination, almost a quarter-century ago, of President John F. Kennedy '40. A dividing line between prosperity, tranquility and peace on the one side, and Vietnam, inflation and internal unrest on the other, Camelot's violent ending marks the time when the American Century suddenly lost its innocence and optimism...
When he disappeared from Beirut in January 1963, after telling his wife he would meet her at a diplomatic dinner party that evening, Kim Philby was a relatively obscure British journalist. During the quarter-century between his defection to the Soviet Union, for which he had been spying since the 1930s, and his death last week at 76 of undisclosed causes, Philby's legend grew to mythic proportions. Still active in the KGB, where he rose to the rank of general, Philby wrote a cryptic 1968 memoir, My Silent War, and gave only a handful of interviews. Yet his life...