Word: semi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although it is not known whether the Lampoon was involved in the attack, the semi-secret society has lobbied for the tree's removal for years. But the Parks and Forests Department has refused to take it away because it is full-grown and healthy...
...Kremlin -- and that preserving the goodwill of the outside world is so crucial -- that not even hard-liners will have the stomach for a crackdown. For a while, the Balts may settle for some kind of semiautonomous status in a far looser Soviet confederation. But in these dizzying times, "semi" may become a euphemism for almost total, and "a while" may be a matter of a few years rather than decades...
...rejection may be most important in signaling a change in the tactics of the Independents, a semi-official slate of candidates named to distinguish itself from the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...
Peru and Bolivia produce more than 90 percent of the world's coca. Colombian drug cartels turn semi-refined coca paste from the two countries into pure cocaine and smuggle it to the United States and Europe...
...soon as the policy was implemented in September, student groups began to protest the restricted speech zones. One group, called the Free Speech Movement, used masking tape and signs to divide the Tufts Quad into a free speech zone, a semi-free speech zone and a "Twilight Zone" where no free speech was allowed...