Word: state
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Santa Claus of State and Washington Streets who spends his mornings with the hurried crunch of Christmas shoppers and the jingle of his Salvation Army bell...
Shevardnadze's request for a meeting next week at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization overshadowed the opening day of talks at which U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III called for a larger political role for the alliance...
Even in a state budget crisis there are huge white lights hanging from almost every tree in Boston Common, where sleigh rides take weary shoppers on a snowless ride through the city's center. A Christmas tree and menorah keep up the pretense of holiday cheer inside the gold-topped State House, where carollers sing while a weary legislature trims a budget rather than a tree...
Right-wing violence directed against academic institutions has historical roots within El Salvador. The formerly prominent state-run Universidad Nacional de El Salvador (UNES) was devastated in 1979 by the army and was shut down from 1981 and 1984. Although since reopened, it has never been able to regain the international prominence it once commanded...
...authorities of the university have publicly announced their profound sense of loss for those who were killed," says Werner Romero, a professor of philosophy at UCA. "However, the university authorities state that the UCA will continue to hold true to the same ideological stance of those killed. The university will continue its line of support for academic freedom, which is freedom of research, freedom of speech in defense of the poor majority of this country...