Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenge to that view is led by former Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard, 55, a political moderate and longtime Mitterrand rival. The Rocardiens are urging the party to shed its Marxist ideological trappings and modernize its image along Social Democratic lines. They say it must reject the Communists and court centrist and independent voters. Said Rocard: "The French people do not want another version of the (Socialist-Communist) common program, warmed over for today's taste...
...tremendous ability to break on the ball, you can't ask for any more out of a ballplayer," the linebacker says. "He's aggressive yet agile, he plays the pass well, and he plays the run well. On the run, the cornerback might have to take on a guard, shed off a block, and then make the tackle, and Kenny does it well...
SINCE THE UNIVERSITY pulled the rusty old Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) out of the shed last spring to discipline a handful of anti-apartheid protesters, a lot of things have changed at Harvard...
...halcyon year of 1973, the U.S. steel industry rolled out 151 million tons of raw steel, employed 509,000 workers and captured 87.6% of the domestic market. By the end of last year, the industry had shed 26 million tons of capacity and 296,000 jobs; its share of the domestic market had dropped...
...some graduate students charge that the department has, in fact, bent over backwards not only to disregard their request that Dominguez not teach the effectively required course, but also to shed a favorable light on the professor...