Word: revolutionize
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Frederik said he planned to take courses in government and international relations. He said he was particularly impressed by two courses he shopped: Historical Study A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World" taught by Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye and Historical Study B-66, "The Nuclear...
El Grito de Lares, which means "the scream of Lares," commemorates a brief Puerto Rican revolution against Spanish rule in 1868. Although the revolution was unsuccessful at the time, Puerto Ricans remember its leaders with great pride, speakers said.
Now they are beginning to find ways out. If the '80s were the lost decade, the '90s show signs of hope. In 1990 more African nations introduced multiparty politics than in all the previous 25 years. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, 38 of Africa's 47 states were...
Over the years, there have been repeated efforts to invest the U.S. government with the cachet of divine authority. "In God We Trust" was first stamped on currency in the 1860s. "Under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance during the McCarthyist 1950s. George Bush campaigned in 1988 to...
Both were leaders in their fields. But in back-to-back reversals of fortune, Wang Laboratories and Phar-Mor took refuge from their creditors in Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code. Wang, whose word processors led the charge into office automation in the 1970s, said it would lay off...