Word: unheard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written enormously popular stories in a realist vein, Aksyonov has gone on to explore a variety of modes and permutations of language, entering the 1980s as the Soviet Union's only truly modern prose writer. His evolution is instructive. Aksyonov's first fiction dealt with a previously unheard-of theme: the real life of Soviet teenagers...
SHENYANG CITY CRACKS BIG THEFT CASE, blared the front-page headline in the Peking People's Daily. GOLD THIEF EXECUTED. Such lurid stories were once unheard of in China's staid official party newspaper, but recently the People's Daily and other Chinese papers have been publishing accounts of criminal wrongdoing almost daily. Even more unusual, the individuals being fingered in the press are ranking government and party officials. Reports TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein: "The fact that they are now being publicly denounced on the country's front pages indicates that the top leadership...
...filly who broke a 65-year tradition to outrun the colts in the Kentucky Derby this year. In gate No. 2 was Codex, the California colt who beat Genuine Risk in the Preakness despite a controversial ride by his jockey that resulted in a foul claim and an almost unheard-of appeal for state authorities to overturn the results of a Triple Crown classic. Given the circumstances, Cassidy might have bypassed the traditional "And they're off!" in favor of a salutation more suitable to the ill will of a horse race turned grudge match: "Shake hands and come...
...Interest rates continued to slide almost as rapidly as they went up last winter and early spring. Major banks reduced their prime rate on business loans to 13%, far below the unheard-of peak of 20% reached in April. Fundamentally, that is a note of cheer: the decline will make it easier for consumers to finance purchases of houses and cars and for businesses to build new plants. But not much easier: the rates are still higher than any reached before 1979. And the speed and depth of the drop shows how abruptly the high rates choked off the business...
...concept of a rigorous review of Core courses was so unheard of that Rosovsky was prompted to comment at length on it in his report to the Faculty and students on the Core released...