Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, whose popularity soared among Soviets when he was named to head a special Politburo commission directing relief efforts for Armenia's earth-quake, received a broader mandate than Gorbachev with only 10 votes opposed to his candidacy...
Starting with a bankroll of $2,000, Gourley managed to collect 35 handguns, four shotguns and $800 in special donations before running out of money last week. Some of the gun traders could not be paid, but they did not seem to mind. Yet not all of them had the purest motives. One man vowed to use his cash bounty as a down payment on an assault rifle. Another threatened to kill the priest. Still others bought cheap $30 guns and sold them to Gourley for a $70 profit...
...course, I have not refused all the privileges, to be quite honest. It is one thing to refuse foodstuffs, access to special stores and various services, but I have not refused an official car, a dacha, a small wooden house in the area where ministers reside and special health services. Among other ministers, nobody else has followed this example...
...president has always shown a special interest in the Law School, where he once served as dean, and in the Kennedy School of Government, which is considered his principal legacy at Harvard...
...Cornell's home-turf advantage, Cavuoti revealed that the Crimson had developed a special antidote...