Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polish people rallied around a proud union in a drive for more bread and more freedom. Under Soviet direction, the Communist establishment responded with quick and bloody punishment. The Israelis bravely surrendered the Sinai as the last provision of their peace with Egypt but simultaneously stepped up a dangerous expansion into the Golan Heights. Arab nations continued their policy of constant confrontation, and neither side moved toward the adoption of joint responsibility for the Palestinians. The United States, meanwhile, set forth no clear foreign policy other than that of threatening renewed American military might, with which we will presumably recapture...
...past year, experts in the field agree, the relationship between the private biological sector and various biology departments has begun to settle down. The public has begun to realize the new companies will not provide mass-produced biological cure-alls, and financial investors no longer regard them as a quick get-rich scheme. In addition, officials at Harvard and other universities have taken advantage of the "lull" to resolve some of the basic problems that plagued the academic-private sector relationship. As one official puts it, the once highly controversial relationship "has begun to gather dust...
...Liverpool. Shrewdly, for Liverpool, the Pontiff planned visits to the cathedrals of both Anglican and Catholic communions. On Monday, after visiting Manchester and York, the Pope's schedule took him to Edinburgh. On Tuesday, his plans called for an ecumenical meeting with representatives of Scottish churches, then a quick series of appearances at events around Glasgow-all by means of a helicopter. The final stop that night was to be an informal evening chat with the Scottish Catholic hierarchy at George Gordon Cardinal Gray's residence in Glasgow. In the morning, John Paul and his retinue expected...
...reads the front page and the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times, and is at work playing video games by 9 a.m. He shares an open, interconnected warren of offices with his close associates and alter egos Kennedy and Marshall. She is bright, quick and Irish, he relaxed and softspoken. The director trusts them totally. Between the two of them, they gently but firmly supply organization to the organization. That is not easy in an office atmosphere resembling, as Spielberg says proudly, the raunchy cantina in Star Wars. When he makes movies, Spielberg explains, "it's like...
...West lately and particularly in America, notions of a much less oppressive Chinese Communist rule have taken hold. Joyful and benevolent revolutionaries bringing quick progress to receptive masses, somehow this image has penetrated the psyche of many Westerners...