Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nazis and their Hungarian offshoot, the Arrow Cross Party. Now, half a century later, the historical association lingers: when the team runs onto the field, the crowd sometimes shouts, "Goose merchants!" -- a barnyard variation on the odious stereotype of Jews as moneygrubbers. Fears Gati: "It is far from certain that post- Communist Eastern Europe will fully embrace Western values...
Modrow appeared to be the party's great Red hope. He was the one member of the Old Guard with a certain popularity, if not exactly a following. During ( the Honecker years, he had openly criticized the deterioration of East Germany's economy and kept up the attacks even after party bosses tried to intimidate him by sending 140 "investigators" to Dresden, where he was local party chief, to look into his "ideological errors." Modrow is now considered the only man who may be able to lead a rejuvenated and reformed party to a respectable performance at the polls...
...Strollers allowed on the deck only at certain hours...
...plight spread last week, Dukakis seemed to gather sympathy. He stayed for hours at his wife's bedside, looking drawn and hurt as he emerged from the hospital. Perhaps the dutiful husband had endured enough. Even within his own family, patience with Kitty was wearing thin. There was a certain irony to that. Kitty has for months wanted her husband to run for President again. Urgently, she pressed him to keep his mind open about 1992. Now, with her own vulnerabilities so drastically exposed, that goal seemed fainter than ever...
With breathtaking speed, the hideous partition that split Berlin falls to the pickax of reforms inspired by Mikhail Gorbachev. As the city exults and the world ponders the consequences, one thing is certain: nothing will ever be quite the same again. -- Is one Germany better than two? -- An obituary for the Wall of Shame, where some 75 people yearning for freedom have perished...