Word: question
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposals, the party offers no specific solutions to stem the ethnic hatred that has led to clashes involving Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Abkhazians, Georgians, Turks, Uzbeks and others. Some activists welcomed the party's attempt to compromise, but said vague promises of decentralization are no longer enough to solve "the nationalities question...
...greatest concession offers the republics the power to question national laws before a strengthened high court...
Yesterday's document said that to achieve a transformation of the Soviet federation, "the question has been raised of working out and signing a new union agreement instead of the Treaty on the Formation of the U.S.S.R...
...interview yesterday, Walsh said that the transactions under question are part of his normal business as a real estate lawyer and that there is no possibility of conflict of interest surrounding any of them...
...smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...