Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sorry more people didn't know about it,"she said, "because he seems very concerned aboutmaking sure that we learn in his class...
...couldn't even get out of the playoffs in '87. Lost in seven lousy games," the San Francisco fan complained. "Sure we had Jeff Leonard, but a lot of good his big mouth...
...Chris comes to Thailand, meaning to meet his responsibilities, instead completing Kim's psychic destruction. Her last desperate act is to ensure her son's future at the cost of her own. The primacy of love over money, the tale implies, is evident only to those who can be sure of both...
...bona fides, he withdrew Soviet troops from Afghanistan and supported regional settlements in Africa and Latin America. He followed up by renouncing intervention in the affairs of Eastern Europe. His steady march toward nuclear-arms reduction often caught the U.S. off guard and vastly impressed Western Europe. His sure hand on foreign policy has been so convincing that some American congressional leaders are complaining that the Bush Administration is responding too tentatively...
...million in 1988 -- on sales of cattle, corn, sugar beets, wheat and other products. Yet mismanagement limits its progress. Dull cites as one example a "specialist system," requiring that people be trained to do only one specific task. Party officials, often without agricultural expertise, constantly monitor to make sure things are done as the party dictates. "Soviet farmers are accustomed to having Big Brother watching over their shoulder," says Dull. "So they try hard to make a field look nice on the surface. The result is that tillages may be done twelve times instead of once, and seeds are often...