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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most recent serious train accident in the Soviet Union, two freight trains, one laden with propane, collided May 20 in the capital of Soviet Kazakhstan. An ensuing explosion and fire killed five people, and destroyed factories and 13 houses. Since the Arzamas accident, the Soviet press has published a number of articles complaining about lax railway safety...
Wilson comes to the job from a scholarly background in chemistry, and more recent experience in research and policy administration. She is less known for her scholarship than for her work on scientific research committees, fundraising and university administration...
...past 17 years, Horner has been responsible for defining Radcliffe's current relationship with Harvard, and for establishing Radcliffe as what many call the foremost research institute on scholarship by, for and about women. However, in recent years, Radcliffe has been accused of neglecting undergraduates by focusing primarily on its postgraduate programs...
...recent weeks, after public furor over MacFarland at Princeton mounted, the professor said he decided to retire early from his post and also from the English Department's outside committee...
...traditionally been disguised with Marxist economics and ideology. To the extent that he de- Communized the economy and discredited ideology, Deng diminished the party's claim to legitimacy. He left the party all the more vulnerable to the flood of discontent that has so stunned the world in recent days. An improvement in living standards is not enough to meet the needs of the people. As a student banner in Tiananmen Square put it, WE LOVE RICE, BUT WE LOVE DEMOCRACY MORE...