Word: basing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...vast array of scattered and discreet images images of Harvard. For some students, a tour may be a pivotal factor in the final college decision. A sunny day or a friendly leader can make all the difference. Others may dismiss the tour as trivial and ephemeral and base their decision on more substantive factors...
...whatever criteria they base their final decison on, visiting students tend to come off the tour with a powerful sense of a Harvard mystique, a pervasive air about the University that makes it somehow different from other institutions. The fact that other schools tell nearly the same stories and show equally impressive buildings doesn't seem to matter as the tours reach their end; nearly everyone can sense the aura...
...Soviet leader faces a June session of the Congress of the Russian Federation, the deliberative body of the Russian republic. That will be followed by the crucial 28th Communist Party Congress, starting on July 2. At that meeting Gorbachev is expected to consolidate the transfer of his power base from the party to the newly formed presidency. "He cannot simply turn up at these meetings," said a Soviet spokesman. "He has to prepare for them." Administration officials admitted that the earlier summit allows Gorbachev to send a strong signal, as one put it, "that Lithuania isn't going to stand...
...need firmer ground on which to base the justice of Lithuania's declaration of independence. And it exists. It has nothing to do with history. | It has instead to do with democracy, with a new principle of international relations or, rather, an old one that has been revived: the principle of democratic legitimacy. The Lithuanians are right to do what they did because it was an elected government, created by consent of the governed, that decided in the name of the people to secede. It is the democratic origin of that decision, not its historical antecedents, that makes it right...
Donaldson was also a key offensive figure in the first game. After the Crusaders had tied the game at 2-2, Donaldson roped a hit to left field with a runner on base. The ball managed to find its way between the legs of the Holy Cross leftfielder, and the Crimson suddenly found itself in a very unfamiliar position--holding a 4-2 lead...