Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a decade ago food was so scarce that the threat of starvation was an everyday fact of life for tens of millions of Chinese. Today shop windows are filled with chickens and ducks, and open-air markets are overflowing with fresh vegetables. But if even the casual visitor to...
Those sacred Sunday services, the National Football League games, were canceled this week by a players' strike and are scheduled to resume next Sunday in a heathen form. Desperate dreamers have been running barricades of picketing stars to get to a field where only the best have ever belonged. Players...
U.S. officials are worried about more than Noriega's alleged drug dealing. Customs agents say they have identified more than 75 Cuban and Soviet-bloc front companies apparently using Panama to circumvent restrictions on the export of American high technology. Every month, they say, tens of millions of dollars worth...
According to one military source, the number of army conscripts who refuse to heed the call to battle has sometimes run as high as 30%. But even if a draft dodger manages to avoid a long prison sentence, he soon discovers that it is almost impossible to get a job...
Late in the week tens of thousands of protesters, all clad in white, the color of the opposition, took to the streets of Panama City in the largest antigovernment rally since June. The demonstration was largely peaceful, and police left the protesters alone. For the time being, Noriega seemed to...