Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds, "it becomes different if someone says, 'I've sold my house, and I'm coming to get you.' " De Becker and his staff of 31 are currently keeping tabs on 5,400 people who may pose a safety hazard to his clients; about half are considered serious threats...
...week bloody rioting that left 20 dead erupted between minority Abkhazians and the Georgian majority in a Black Sea region of western Georgia. Some 3,000 Interior Ministry troops were dispatched to help local police quiet the unrest. But the audacious mining walkout has presented Gorbachev with the most serious labor challenge he has had to face, and casts in graphic terms the cruel dilemma of perestroika: how to raise productivity and living standards at the same time...
...strikes dealt a serious blow to the economy, Gorbachev said, but he reassured his fellow Soviets that "our perestroika will give results despite the tests we are undergoing...
Some observers from within FAS said that the Summer School's financial standing, combined with its steadily increasing enrollments made the time ripe for an intensive self-evaluation on the part of the program. They also predicted serious discussion in the Faculty Council of the Summer School's role within the University...
Most professors say they see no need to overhaul the Summer School, saying it can operate as a money maker while maintaining its integrity as a serious academic program...