Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business confidence is strong and economic growth is expected to reach 12% this year. Leaving many high-tech fields to the other NICs, Hong Kong is concentrating on being a financial center. Virtually all the world's major banks have offices there. Hong Kong is also developing its role as the gateway to the largest potential market in the world: China...
...sexual liaisons and those of his bedmates, could be linked to nine of the first 19 cases in Los Angeles, 22 cases in New York City and nine more in eight other cities -- in all, some 40 of the first 248 cases in the U.S. The CDC acknowledged his role with an eerie sobriquet: it called him Patient Zero...
Bork decided they were right. He likened the situation to his role in the Saturday Night Massacre, when his first inclination was to resign after firing Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox at President Nixon's request. Instead, he decided it would be best to stay and see the crisis through. Putting aside his withdrawal statement, Bork began, with the help of his sons, to draft an eloquent explanation of his decision to fight...
American choppers sink one gunboat and disable two others after Iranians open fire. -- Robert Bork vows to take his futile Supreme Court confirmation fight to a vote on the Senate floor. -- A young Al Gore, the South' s articulate contender, stakes out a hawkish role in the Democratic nomination race. -- Clare Boothe Luce, a woman who triumphed in a man' s world, dies...
...stunning book tells of the tragic mishandling of the AIDS epidemic and the $ eerie role of Patient Zero. -- AIDS and circumcision...