Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention has focused on the possibility of a rebel victory, allegedly presided over by the Soviets and their Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. No one mentions the possibility that the insurgents might be independently fighting to overthrow a brutal right-wing regime and to assert El Salvador's right to self-determination...
...final comment on this theory. A lack of single rooms does not automatically prevent a thriving social life, as some self-sacrificing roommates know all too well. I say this not to further subvert the "Blame Harvard" theory, but rather to retaliate against my roommate for never fully appreciating my many nights in the common room. (Revenge...
...meantime, with its borders open to the West, the G.D.R.'s sense of self and of self-confidence may actually be strengthened, but only if democratization and liberalization move apace, if the Communist dictatorship is dismantled, and if the people can partake of the freedoms enjoyed by their countrymen on the other side...
...from this slave mentality. Japan is the only country that is developing practical uses of superconductivity and, I believe, will master the technology in ten years. Then Japan will be at the center of industry. Japan must repel any attempt by the U.S. to prevent it from becoming more self-assertive...
...Less than 1% are members of such non-European groups as Asians and blacks, who constitute 6.3% of the population. The Justice Department has concluded that the hat requirement discourages Sikhs from joining the force and would probably fail a court challenge. But Alberta housewife Dot Miles, 62, a self-described "caring Canadian," and her two sisters gathered 150,000 signatures on petitions to retain the dress code, and sympathetic legislators presented the results to Parliament...