Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Centralization has also battered the fragile Baltic environment. Economists estimate that nearly all the pollution that fouls Estonian rivers, lakes and the Baltic Sea is emitted by industries controlled by eight Moscow ministries. An even touchier question is Moscow's role in skewing the republic's demography. During the industrialization...
Last week's infection was the latest manifestation of an epidemic of viruses that has struck the U.S. in the past year. Similar to its biological counterpart, an electronic virus is a program that copies itself by taking control of a computer's internal machinery. Unlike more malicious versions, the...
Takeover wars have raged on and off for decades, but corporate America has never seen anything quite like the battle for RJR Nabisco. The combatants are brandishing tens of billions of dollars and mobilizing squadrons of bankers and lawyers on a scale previously unimagined. On one side is the firm...
The civil war erupted in 1975 as Angola achieved independence after an anticolonial struggle against Portugal that had begun in 1961. It has killed more than 100,000 Angolans, wounded tens of thousands and cost the country as much as $23 billion in war damage, lost crops and lost diamond...
The vote was a turning point on Chile's long road back to a nearly 150-year tradition of democracy, which was toppled in the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power. Since ousting the elected, but floundering, government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, Pinochet has led a military...