Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have a vested interest in making good on the antique IOUs. In recent times, U.S. banks have loaned money to the Soviets only for short periods. But the Soviets hope that a repayment of the old debt may encourage some U.S. banks to extend longer-term loans, as European and Japanese financial institutions have done over the past five years to the tune of $11 billion...
Like the incoming Bush Cabinet, the new White House press corps has many familiar faces. Lesley Stahl, who covered Reagan's first term for CBS News, is returning. So are veteran Reagan watchers for ABC, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. Yet White House reporters old and new take up their posts at a time when the beat, though still one of journalism's most prestigious, has lost some of its luster after eight years of obsessive news management by the Reagan Administration. "Like the peso, it's been devalued," admits...
...beyond mobilizing around single issues such as campus security, Harvard felt the stirrings of more long-term feminist activism as a Women's Alliance formed to unite women's students groups on campus. The founders of the Women's Alliance have an issue--the lack of women on Harvard's faculty--but they say that the group will formulate its agenda around the broad spectrum of campus women's issues...
...term city councillor, who announced last week that his current term would be his last, displayed the quirkiness that has become his trademark over the past 40 years...
...calmer moment, he took time out to explain the derivation of the term "linguini" to reporters--seems it comes from the Italian for "lizards' tongues...