Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nor was it merely a matter of his potent personality. For unlike most video- generated celebrities, Iacocca was not famous simply for being famous: he had done something. By 1983, everyone could see that Iacocca had, in fact, carried out his immense logistical mission. He had managed to whip a...
Tens of thousands of volumes of Chernenko's collected essays and speeches and countless propaganda posters emblazoned with his quotations could not quite conceal the flaws of a man whose only real claim to power was his skill as a Communist Party functionary. Nor could they dispel the fact that...
During similar offensives in past years, the Vietnamese always shelled the camps, driving tens of thousands of refugees into Thailand, but then retreated from the border posts relatively quickly. The guerrillas always managed to rebuild their bases during the rainy season, beginning in May. When they did, as many as...
The Vietnamese push, which got under way last November, gained additional muscle after two key resistance camps fell in January and February. Hanoi had moved in two additional divisions for the border operation, bringing the number of Vietnamese troops in the area to almost 60,000. The Vietnamese also conscripted...
Any budgetary relief that may result from denying tens of thousands of Americans access to the best-institutions of higher education will be a far out-weighed by the mockery the cuts would make of some of the nation's crowning principles. Hopefully the defeat of the proposal by the...