Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dartmouth notched the first goal while short-handed in the third period. Gina Gualtieri, one of last year's top 10 scorers in the Ivy League, took a pass at the point and skated through the Harvard defense, unleashing a backhander that went by White...
...time a fatal kidney ailment cut short Andropov's tenure in early 1984, Gorbachev was already a candidate to succeed his former mentor. At Andropov's funeral, Gorbachev made a telling gesture of his closeness to the late General Secretary: he was the only Politburo member publicly to console Andropov's bereaved widow Tatyana. But the Old Guard made a final stand, choosing Chernenko instead. Gorbachev went along, and even agreed to make the nominating speech. He probably knew his turn would come soon enough. Ailing and 72, Chernenko was not going to last long. In fact, through much...
Gorbachev's idea of glasnost stops well short of Western-style artistic and journalistic freedom. Nonetheless, the policy has gone further than anyone would have predicted even a few years ago, winning Gorbachev the enthusiastic approval of intellectuals. Says Vitali Korotich, editor of Ogonyok, an illustrated weekly that has published hard-hitting articles about social problems as well as anthologies of long-suppressed poetry: "This is an evening of dancing in a society that has never danced...
...veering back to the gathering Wall Street storm that threatened to destroy everything he had worked to achieve over the past decade. By the time Black Monday was over and Lynch realized the full magnitude of what had happened, he knew his Irish vacation would have to be cut short. By 6 a.m. the next morning Lynch was on his way to Shannon Airport, pondering the stunning news that in the two business days he had been away, Fidelity Magellan's assets had plunged by 28%, from $10.7 billion to $7.7 billion...
...crew is scheduled to return to earth New Year's Eve along with last week's third space traveler, a scientist on a short-term mission. By then Commander Yuri Romanenko will have spent 328 consecutive days in space, shattering the Soviet record of 237 days and leaving the U.S. record of 84 days in the cosmic dust...