Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anarchists and the Trotskyites rose up in Barcelona but were crushed after a desperate struggle. The government blamed the Trotskyites leaders and dupes who engaged in "conscious lying, conscious provocation conscious support for Fascism." The Comintern engineered a switch in leadership, from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...
...hold the No. 2 spot in the Kremlin. At a reception in the Greek embassy, Papandreou was in a jovial mood. As a folk singer rendered an old Russian favorite, Kalinka (Little Snowball Tree), in a throaty voice to the accompaniment of a balalaika and harmonica, the Prime Minister rose and, while 100 guests cheered him on, performed a graceful sirtaki, circling around with his arms raised over his head, like a man much younger than his 66 years...
...elevator, with a recommended capacity of 10 rose three floors before stopping and slowly descending past and the basement level...
...making broadeast deals, allowing member schools to negotiate for TV rights on their own, Barney Frank, an executive at the sports promotion firm Trans World International, came up with the idea of an Ivy Group football package soon after the ruling. The plan's intention was not to displace Rose Bowl contenders from their commercial network homes, but rather to put the Ivy games on public, television, underwritten by corporate philanthropy a la "Masterpiece Theatre" or "Alastair Cooke's America." The Ivy Group, the official organization representing Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and II, Penn, agreed, and thus...
...income are taken into account, the retired are taking in more money, in real terms, than they did when they were working in their early years. Measured in 1983 dollars, the young working family had an average income of $14,910 in 1950. In 1980, after retirement, that rose to $20,370. When such benefits as food stamps, medical care and housing assistance are considered, only 3% of this group are counted as officially poor. Even if those grants are not counted, the poverty rate for , the elderly is 14.1%, vs. 15.4% for the rest of the U.S. A large...