Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thatcher's visit to the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Deidesheim was aimed at persuading Kohl to drop his government's insistence on early talks, a demand that has placed him in a battle of wills with Thatcher and President Bush...
...plot is an excuse to get the conversations going. Suwelo, a black professor of American history, travels from his California home to attend an uncle's funeral in Baltimore and to dispose of the house that comes as his inheritance. Suwelo is grateful for the respite provided by this visit; his wife Fanny (the granddaughter of Miss Celie, the heroine of The Color Purple) has discovered feminism and wants a divorce. It is not that she has stopped loving him, as she tells him, but rather that "I don't want to be married." Gloomily, Suwelo decides that "his generation...
...ever wonder how Washington really works? Twenty-three leaders of top U.S. and foreign corporations tried to find out last week in a three-day, TIME-sponsored visit to the nation's capital. White House Chief of Staff John Sununu opened the TIME Executive News Conference with a spirited defense of the President's first 100 days. Cabinet Secretaries painted a dismaying picture of U.S. drug, environmental and educational problems. One morning was spent in the CIA's domed and soundproofed "bubble" with officials, including Director William Webster. In a majestic Supreme Court conference room, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy paced...
...applause began with Richard Nixon's famous visit to the People's Republic, it has been intensified by the growing Chinese presence on campuses, in business and the arts. When Kingston published her first account, The Woman Warrior (1976), she was a soloist. Today she is part of a choir of writers concerned with the Chinese experience. On Broadway, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly explores the boundaries of power, sex and race. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, published last month, Chinese mothers offer their children a series of poignant confessionals. China's repressive Cultural Revolution...
...late 1930s my great grandmother left her native Austria to visit the United States for a few years. She never went home again...