Word: union
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe Union of Students Treasurer Serena Y. Volpp '92 has said that a professor who is a tenured member of the faculty would "ultimately be the best" to fulfill such a mandate...
...television to accuse one of his country's leading politicians of corruption. The injured politician denounces his accuser. The government launches an investigation, and the investigators blast the candidate. The incident would not be out of place in a Western capital. But this, last week, was the Soviet Union, which is finding that one side effect of glasnost is political alley fighting in public...
...which make the dollar attractive to foreign investors, and the political woes of West Germany and Japan. The Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from 9.2% earlier this month to 8.8% last week, it remains higher than the return on comparable securities abroad...
...definition of conquest has changed. Japan has proved that territory, sheer acreage, means nothing. The Soviet Union's geographical vastness has availed little in productivity...
...world, America has lost some of its radiant pride of place. Japan has risen. Europe is organizing itself into a new collective power. The Soviet Union is struggling to escape the dustbin of history. Gorbachev, a magician of much elan, attempts to rescind the hoax of Communism without denouncing its idea. It is fascinating to watch a smart man trying to defend a premise that is beneath his intelligence...