Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David...
The two incidents have very different causes, even if they both represent gross negligence. The first was clearly a case of an irresponsible driver unable to control an unsafe situation, which she herself had created. The crash raised questions about PBH and the safety measures it insisted upon (or didn...
Gorbachev may represent the West's last chance, at least in this century, of better integrating the Soviet Union into the world economy. There it would come under pressure to behave like a Western country, competing for capital and markets, lowering the barriers to foreign investment and even making its...
In Paris, just across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower, a beefed-up force of 200 police surrounded the ornate Iranian embassy, floodlighting the building at night to prevent the departure of its 45 occupants. French security agents even checked nearby sewers to make sure no one left the...
On Saturday, Mohtashami made his espionage charges, claiming that the French diplomats had "acted as a connecting bridge to help counterrevolutionaries escape abroad and also to help link splinter groups inside Iran." French officials accused Iran of making the spying allegations in order to create a situation parallel to the...