Word: toward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy wish to proclaim, since it did not seem that the gods would ever grant it. Now, amid the widespread Western joy over last week's freedom dance at the Brandenburg Gate, comes a more sobering realization: the postwar division of both Germany and Europe seems to be tumbling toward the ash heap of history faster than preparations are being made for whatever new order might arise in its stead...
...Eastern Europe from the claws that had clutched it for four decades. In fact, Moscow seemed all too eager to remove those claws. So eleven amazing months later, amid the euphoria over headlines and live telecasts that continue to amaze, comes an added and even trickier challenge: steering Europe toward a continent free of rivalries -- with an unthreatening Germany in the middle and a secure U.S.S.R. on the edge...
Cutler's boss is trying to get the message out that hard times are on the way. Lee Iacocca, who visited Washington last week to lobby Congress for a tougher, more focused U.S. trade and industrial policy toward Japan, said in a recent interview with the trade publication Automotive News, "They don't know there is a war on. They don't have the foggiest idea. Am I saying the worst is yet to come? I don't think we've bottomed out yet. That is what I am saying." No one in Detroit would contest his argument. The outcome...
CHICAGO. At Harper High School, two boys enter a math class and start a fight. While students and the teacher try to break it up, one intruder lunges toward Chester Dunbar and stabs him in the back with a knife. As the two boys flee, Dunbar slumps to the classroom floor, fatally wounded...
...have been (slightly) exaggerated. Last week, meeting in an abandoned air base at Qlaiaat in northern Lebanon, 58 aging Deputies of the country's parliament elected Rene Moawad, 64, a moderate Maronite Christian lawyer who enjoys the backing of Syria, to the presidency. The vote was a crucial step toward fulfilling the conditions of the peace plan brokered last month by the Arab League...