Word: soon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fondled her in his chauffeur-driven car and asked for sex. "He kept saying, 'That's the way the world works,' " she told the Washington Post. The woman says she escaped Savage's advances when an embassy worker intervened. The next day U.S. Ambassador William Harrop rebuked Savage, and soon afterward the volunteer was sent back to the U.S. for counseling...
...some areas, disturbs environmentalists. They say the more effective pesticides can wipe out virtually all insects in an area and may also threaten drought-weakened wildlife. Organic farmers fear that the chemicals will taint their crops, shutting them out of a lucrative market. Yet if nothing is done soon, the problems could multiply: the maturing locusts are expected to lay more eggs in August...
...doesn't much matter to Henley. "People have short memories and attention spans," he notes. "They forget me as soon as I'm off MTV. I'm glad." That kind of confidence can come not only from satisfaction in his work but also from a sense that the work has paid off. Out just a month ago, the new album has already gone gold: the title cut, released as a single, sounds similarly hit-bound. It is a ravishing love song, slightly world-weary and bracingly off-center, nostalgic for better loves and wiser times...
...strike soon spread to nine other cities in the Kuzbass. Grimy miners complained that when they came up after six hours underground, they could not find a bar of soap to wash with; the ration is one bar every two months. "Who can tell us what to feed our husbands?" shouted a woman protesting empty shelves in the stores. Many called for complete independence from central planning, insisting the miners could run things themselves...
...crux of the problem is that the leadership Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson gave the Apollo program was not continued by their successors. That leadership gap may soon end, though. As early as this week, President George Bush is expected to announce his vision for the U.S. space program. No one knows what Bush will say, but some members of his National Space Council, chaired by Vice President Dan Quayle, reportedly favor a return to the moon, followed by a manned trip to Mars...