Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite 40 leftist bombs that caused extensive damage to businesses in the capital, and a shooting rampage that took the lives of 23 persons in a single day, the archbishop's death did not touch off the uncontrolled conflict that was initially feared. But with tens of thousands expected...
That slogan will start bombarding Americans this week from sea to shining sea as the great decennial head count begins. Ministers, priests and rabbis will be preaching it from their pulpits on "Census Sabbath" and "Census Sunday." Put to music, the slogan will blare from radios in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian...
On the eve of Iran's traditional new year celebrations,* Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini made an uncharacteristically conciliatory gesture. The spiritual leader of Iran's revolution declared an amnesty for everyone accused of collaborating with the deposed Shah's regime except for "murderers, torturers and plunderers." That was...
Housing starts in January fell 18% below a year earlier, to an annual rate of 1.4 million, and they appear headed much lower. Buyers cannot afford mortgage interest rates that top 16% in some areas oi the country, and savings and loan associations are running out of money to lend...
While Mugabe has resisted impatient black demands for drastic, immediate change, he has still not won the full confidence of the country's 200,000 whites. Tens of thousands of settlers, fearful that their presence will be tolerated only until Mugabe consolidates his power, are preparing for eventual departures...