Word: clearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November four masked thugs broke into the apartment where Tokes lived with his pregnant wife, and they beat and stabbed the minister. Two friends who were visiting Tokes helped fight off the attackers. In a smuggled videotape made last fall, a haggard Tokes showed clear signs of strain. "They've broken our windows every day," he said. "Now they've started breaking them in the church as well. Our friends sleep here now. The nights are terrible...
This year, as world attention ricocheted from the stirrings of democracy in the U.S.S.R. to the massacre in Beijing and the peaceful revolts in Eastern Europe, it became clear that we were witnessing a sequence of events that began well before 1989 and whose impact would extend into the next decade, perhaps the next century. Somehow, confining our choice to 1989 seemed inadequate, and thus we named Gorbachev Man of the Decade. The project was coordinated by editor at large Strobe Talbott and Brigid O'Hara-Forster, chief researcher of the World section...
...scratched-up 45s and 33s with shiny compact discs. The complete works of almost all major artists, from Rachmaninoff to the Rolling Stones, are being released in the new format. At up to $18 a pop, CDs are costly, but the tones they produce are astonishingly crisp and clear. Pressed between CDs and cassette tapes, the venerable vinyl long-playing record is being relegated to memory lane...