Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flanked by three of his chief ministers, up four flights of steps to the court chambers. As it happened, the court elevator was not working because hours earlier a bomb, planted by leftist guerrillas, had left sections of San Salvador, the capital, without power. The scene aptly symbolized the twin crises faced by Duarte. On the one hand, continued guerrilla warfare threatens to undermine the country's economy, institutions and hopes for democracy. At the same time, a rightist- authored election law is threatening to rob the moderate Duarte of effective power...
...original concept of establishing a twin city in the Soviet Union was unanimously approved by the City Council in 1981 with the intent to create "an enhanced sense of shared values" through cultural interaction...
MATCHED PAIRS. Torvill and Dean (Jayne and Christopher), the pluperfect English ice dancers, and the twin brothers Mahre (Phil and Steve), who won gold and silver in near mirror performances at the Winter Games...
Mattel and Filmation have so far kept He-Man an all-male preserve. But a new market will open up next fall, when Filmation begins airing its new series, She-Ra, Princess of Power. It will be the story of He-Man's twin sister, who leads a host of female warriors against an evil horde. Will she share in her brother's omnipotence? Not exactly. Producer Lou Scheimer explains that She-Ra is more caring than He-Man. "We tried to endow her with powers of nature rather than strength," he explains. "But she can do damn near anything...
...living well, it was a year of living dangerously. The financial system, still feeling the aftershocks of the last recession, wobbled and might have toppled if Uncle Sam had not rushed to the rescue of the Continental Illinois bank. In addition, the economy was menaced by those terrible twin deficits in the federal budget and foreign trade. These two monsters dragged down the rate of growth in the second half of the year and threatened to stall the recovery...