Word: widens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani then told Vinogradov that Soviet friendship overtures would get nowhere so long as Moscow supported Baghdad and the puppet regime in Afghanistan. TIME has learned that the Iranians believe Moscow knew of the Iraqi attack beforehand, and did not inform Tehran because it saw an opportunity to widen its influence. Said a senior Iranian official: "The Kremlin thought it could easily fill up what it perceived to be a vacuum left by the eviction of the U.S. from Iran...
...matter what the course of events is in South Africa, increasing educational opportunities of Black South Africans should make constructive contributions, he added. Bok said the opportunity to study in America would widen horizons of South African students and give them a detached perspective...
...Chroniclerefused to print it, reasoning: "the importance of cultivationg and cherishing the most friendly relations between the different sections of the city is far greater than the pleasure which we could give by the statement of evidence, or argument of counsel, which, to say the least, would tend to widen the unfortunate differences which seems to exist among...
...David Taube, who arrived from Leningrad with his family last December, recognizes that the "lack of language is an interruption of cultural development. Because of this, immigrants live in a very closed environment, and often it is very difficult to overcome this circle. Some people don't want to widen the circle...
This failure to "widen the circle" is experienced by older immigrants, who are frightened to begin a new life and learn a new, unfamiliar language. Younger immigrants, especially children, adjust faster to the language and thus outstrip their parents in adapting to American society. This, sociologists say, sometimes results in a lack of communication between parents and children. However Natasha and Marina Taube, ages seven and ten, respectively, are as close as ever to their parents...