Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alan Garcia Perez, who has been President of Peru since 1985. Much like his neighbor Mitterrand, Gonzalez has become an apostle of "market socialism," and he is virtually assured of re-election when Spaniards go to the polls later this month. Garcia, by contrast, stuck with policies similar to those Perez had followed in his own first term. Peru now faces economic disaster, and Garcia is almost certain to be defeated next year. After a visit to Lima last year, Perez looked down from his plane at the horrible slums below, shook his head and said, sadly and simply, "This...
...modern screen has offered. The gradual stripping away of false issues between the brothers (Why is Jack always late for gigs? Why does Frank fuss so much about his bald spot?) as they get down to the true ones (involving, naturally, their childhood and piano lessons) is done with similar subtlety. Kloves' delicacy as a writer is, moreover, matched by his restraint as a director. It would have been easy to patronize or satirize the less than fabulous milieu of The Fabulous Baker Boys. Instead he and his fine cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus, have created a gently dislocating noirish mood...
...assassination goes back to President Ford in 1976. It followed the mid-1970s revelations about CIA covert attempts on the life of Fidel Castro and similar pranks, and is a distant echo of the reactions to the assassination of President Kennedy. But there is nothing in the order limiting the ban to covert action or to attempts on heads of state. It simply forbids "assassination." What is assassination? If the word just means killing someone, anyone, for political reasons, then it effectively bans the use of -- or even conspiracy to use -- lethal force. That would make America the first pacifist...
Insisting there is nothing wrong with students of similar interests living together, some masters and students argue that house life is especially rewarding when it offers an opportunity for people to form organized activities and support groups, such as the Lowell House Opera and the Adams House improvisational groups...
...researchers at Harvard's Medical School have struggled to deal with the consequences of two messy scandals over the past year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is preparing to implement new regulations designed to forestall similar occurrences...