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...apartment complex in suburban Krylatskoye and a well-stocked supermarket, where the PM purchased a can of herring-like fish fillets called pilchards. The Prime Minister also met with Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the dissident leader who was allowed to return to Moscow four months ago from a seven-year exile in Gorky. Sakharov emphasized the importance of Gorbachev's social reforms to the prospects for world peace. Said he: "A more democratic, more open country is safer for the world as a whole...
...people at Monday's $600-per-person dinner included many who were there when Kemp, now 51, entered politics after a seven-year career as a quarterback for the Bills...
Using the results of the Multiple Risk FactorIntervention Trial, previous research on heartdisease conducted by the National Heart, Blood andLung Institute, the Harvard doctors found that theaverage decrease over a seven-year period...
Such rivalries were inevitable under cohabitation. The unusual arrangement came about because France's constitution sets a seven-year presidential term but schedules parliamentary elections, which determine the choice of a Premier, at five-year intervals. Mitterrand, the only leftist to hold the presidency in the Fifth Republic, served the first five years of his term with a parliamentary majority and then lost it to Chirac's center-right coalition in 1986. It was the first time that sequence of events had occurred. Mitterrand and Chirac cooperated well for a while, but lately political thrusts and parries between...
...with Bible held aloft, "but it doesn't matter, because you're going to a better place anyway!" To many of his eager listeners in a San Salvador stadium, the distant hope of heaven may have been at least momentarily alluring, beset as their nation has been by a seven-year guerrilla war and a moribund economy. When the preacher later assured them that "terrible times are coming," the applause of approving believers reached a thunderous peak...