Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The diversion, which would take 50 years to complete, would exact an enormous toll. In an area larger than Western Europe, tens of thousands of people would be displaced from their homes. Millions of acres of northern land would be flooded, including great tracts of game forest. Towns and villages...
Heavy borrowing is equally problematic for the unprepared middle-class family with expenses, and for the student with no resources at all. Aid officers calculate that, with rising interest rates and with the new GSL stipulation that students start repaying the loans while still in school, a student relying on...
In Tehran, tens of thousands took to the rooftops chanting "Allahu akbar" (God is great). Automobile drivers honked their horns, and mosques sounded the azan, the Muslim call to prayer. As the extent of the Iraqi defeat became known, Iranian leaders declared that they would stop at nothing, including the...
Meanwhile, economic conditions in the area are going from bad to worse. Business in El Salvador is in catastrophic shape. The nation's gross domestic product has plunged about 20% since 1978, and analysts expect a further slide this year. The unemployment rate is approximately 30%. Two years of...
Once again Leonid Brezhnev confounded the doomsayers who had placed him at death's door since he reportedly suffered a stroke five weeks ago. Making his second public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on...