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Word: insights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Providing unusual insight into divisions in the policy-making Central Committee, the Communist Party newspaper said of 641 Central Committee members and alternates who voted Thursday, 12 were opposed to Gorbachev...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opposition to Gorbachev Reported | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

With this insight, scientists could more accurately predict an individual's vulnerability to such obviously genetic diseases as cystic fibrosis and could eventually develop new drugs to treat or even prevent them. The same would be true for more common disorders like heart disease and cancer, which at the very least have large genetic components. Better knowledge of the genome could speed development of gene therapy -- the actual alteration of instructions in the human genome to eliminate genetic defects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Gene Hunt | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Evans' experience in Senate and statehouse give him insight into the great debate of whether a governor or a legislator is more qualified for the presidency...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Evans Offers Perspectives from Senate and Statehouse | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

...real reason to care about the plot of Skin Deep, and there's no reason to care about any of the film's characters, for that matter. I certainly didn't care whether or not Zach got back together with his wife--the film didn't give any insight into either character. I didn't care whether or not Zach stops drinking, or whether he ever writes another book. The only thing Skin Deep really made me care about was...where can I get some glow-in-the dark condoms...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Blake Edwards' Skin Flick | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

...notorious Lefortovo prison, where Natan Sharansky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and many lesser-known dissidents have been detained. What Syrokomsky and Akhlomov saw, of course, was carefully screened; they were not allowed into the KGB communications center, laboratories and interrogation rooms. And conspicuously absent from Nedelya's pages was any insight into Vladimir Kryuchkov, the new chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Inside The KGB | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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