Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charging that the leadership of the Legal Services Corporation is not fulfilling its role in providing legal help to the poor, five prominent law school deans--including Harvard Dean James Vorenberg '49--sent a letter to President Bush urging him to quickly appoint a new board of directors...
...Because Pepsi said to our young people in this country, "Here is the role model we think worthy of $10 million in support." Here is a pop singer who makes a video that's sacrilegious to the core. Here's a pop star that made a low-budget porn film. Here's a pop star who goes around in her concerts with sex oozing out, wearing a cross. Now Pepsi is saying to all the young people of the new generation, "Here is the person we want you to emulate and imitate." They can do that. They've got every...
...week wore on, it appeared that whatever power Deng and his colleagues held came from the guns of the P.L.A. Intelligence specialists believe the army has played a role not only in securing the capital but also in preparing for further repression. One possible goal: to scare off prying foreigners...
...though everyone, whatever his assigned role, understood the larger meaning of the drama. Something is happening in the Communist world, a revolt against the system. From the Baltic to the China Sea, people are straining against the confines of Communism, demanding a greater share in the world's riches and a fair share in their own governance...
Gorbachev's experiment in rambunctious parliamentary democracy adjourned, with moments of high drama to the very end. At the closing session of the Congress, Andrei Sakharov and Gorbachev squared off against each other. Sakharov called for removal of the constitutional provision giving the Communist Party the "leading role" in Soviet political life, while the Soviet leader accused the Nobel Peace laureate of trying to "belittle" the new parliament's achievements. There were also painful disclosures about the dreadful state of the Soviet economy. Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov admitted that some 40 million Soviets, or 13% of the population, live below...