Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...universities are only one of the enemies Cambridge confronts--the faceless specter of "economic forces" haunts this city...
...Until next time"--the phrase conjured a specter of success, a shadow of eventual secession to observers across Canada. In Levesque's deeply-set eyes Tuesday night, you could detect both shattering disappointment and tenacious optimism. The self-styled Lenin of the Quebec "revolution" viewed the setback as severe, but stressed that the verdict is still out. "The ball is in the federalists' court," he said in French, words received by his supporters with a chorus of catcalls. The loss in the plebiscite was a watershed; but it did not, to quote Churchill, mark the beginning...
...head of a triumvirate that overthrew (and executed) President Salem Robaye Ali for "laxism toward reactionary states." Ismail strengthened his country's ties with Moscow and last year signed a friendship treaty with the U.S.S.R. Soviet arms and experts poured into South Yemen, raising the specter of a Soviet-run military base near the oilfields and shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf. Ismail proved to be such a loyal friend of Moscow's that he was the only Arab head of state to endorse openly the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
Some of the human costs are more difficult to handle. For workers whose only mistake was taking employment in an industry that was running itself into the ground, the specter of indefinite layoffs can be daunting. In a one-industry town like Mahwah that will soon become a zero-industry town, often the only solution is to leave...
...pall of summer looms, surreal, as we endure winter in our cold corner of Cambridge. But summer's specter beckons, despite its distance, and we scramble to places like the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, embarking on the search--the search for The Job, The Experience, The Money, or The Diversion...