Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast is a bit out of our league," said member Mark A. Gragg '91. "If we want to organize a protest, okay. But it's not the UC's role to sponsor an event personally...
...attempt to generate hysteria among undergraduates when, given the current inequities in our system of military service, there was clearly no need to do so. It also represented another example of COCA's highly selective and skewed portrayal of current events in Central America and of the United States' role in them...
...regular, inescapable need for new borrowing authority has inspired Democrats and Republicans alike to play dangerous, self-serving games. Hoping to revive Bush's cherished reduction in the capital-gains tax, Senate Republicans considered attaching it to the debt-ceiling legislation. Majority Leader George Mitchell, increasingly playing the role of an unyielding Horatius at the Bridge, blocked them. Democrats similarly toyed with piggybacking onto the debt bill measures that Bush would veto if passed separately. Both sides backed off only when the nation was on the brink of insolvency...
...never got together and said we were going to be good role models," says Donnie. "When we say no to drugs, it's from seeing people around us using them." The Kids all hail from Dorchester, a blue-collar section of Boston where the street action can run pretty heavy. Maurice Starr, 35, the drummer and producing whiz who put the Kids together in 1985, comes from neighboring Roxbury, where the streets are definitively mean. He has produced all the Kids' records, writes much of their material and commands the instrument work ("All instruments played or programmed by Maurice Starr...
...alliances that have divided Europe (and Germany) for 40 years seem less urgent militarily in the Gorbachev era. But they now must play a political role that is no less critical. At the beginning of 1989, way back when Hungary's Communist rulers were just considering whether to allow independent parties and Poland's were still debating whether to talk with Solidarity, the challenge seemed to be to find ways to ease Eastern Europe from the claws that had clutched it for four decades. In fact, Moscow seemed all too eager to remove those claws. So eleven amazing months later...