Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them perhaps 101 seats in the 250-member parliament. Scares has ruled out a minority government, and he refuses to cooperate with Portugal's hard-lining Communist Party, which polled 18% of the vote. His only possible allies were his old enemies, the outgoing Social Democrats, who in spite of their name are a conservative party...
...spite of some problems with their controversial president, many Yalies seem to love their school. Although the first to admit that Yale's reputation for being a grind has validity, they unabashedly assert that the education is tops. "What distinguishes Yale from a place like Harvard is that we work harder," says one freshman...
...Aaron A. Estis '80 drew loud applause when he responded by saying "if so, it's in spite of the College's efforts. Everything Third World students have gotten from this University we forced Harvard to give...
...couple settled in Arlington, Va., where Kaminskaya wrote Final Judgment. It is the first major insider's account of the Soviet criminal-justice system. Most revealing-and surprising-are her descriptions of how justice often prevails in criminal cases, in spite of a judiciary that is lacking in independence...
...lesser hands would overwhelm the story of one woman's family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite. Painfully, he recalls the mother whom he revered with the absolute awe and devotion of a child. Yet as he tells the story of her utter heroism, he views her with a journalist's balance and detachment...