Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took his Cabinet position. He immediately announced support for a multibillion-dollar cut in student aid, a stance he has strengthened in the past 20 months. Supporters of educational equality jumped on Bennett because they feared a two-tiered system of higher education: Ivy College for the rich, State U. for the poor. This was the same Bill Bennett, who as the head of NEH, had refused to comply with an affirmative action decree from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Along Route 30, we found a covered bridge built in 1878 across the Connecticut River that runs near Brattleboro. Standing 20 ft. above the river, it looked rickety and narrow. On the other end, two narrow roads branched off, and we had to make a U-turn on the narrow road to get back. It was the first, but not the last, traffic jam that we managed to create during the trip...
...where change comes grudgingly or hardly at all, where the annual opening of a summer home confirms continuity: "Everything was always the same. Here was the boring card game that taught you the names of Canadian wildflowers; here was the Scrabble set with the Y and one of the U's missing." Such environments do not preclude drama or excitement; they lend individual events a scale of history...
Although his vehicle was under heavy machine-gun fire and was rocked by at least one grenade explosion, Pinochet's driver managed to slam the car into reverse, whip around in a U-turn, and speed out of the circle of fire and back to El Melocoton. All but one carload of bodyguards stayed behind to shoot it out with the guerrillas. When the battle was over, five security men were dead and eleven wounded. Despite a widespread manhunt by army units and the paramilitary carabineros, all the attackers, whose number was estimated at between twelve and 40, slipped away...
...depths of hostility and mistrust between the superpowers, whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Over the years a lot has gone wrong, and the timing has often scuttled the best-laid plans of statesmen, including some of the Soviet Union's own. In May 1960 an American U-2 plane was downed near Sverdlovsk, and Nikita Khrushchev stormed out of a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in Paris. In August 1968, just as Lyndon Johnson and the Kremlin leaders were preparing to launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia and SALT was postponed. In December...