Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...unconscious source.... This type of person serves Soviet interests and works under KGB control without realizing what he is doing. Lenin used to call such people useful idiots. Without being conscious KGB agents, they are often in a position to accomplish far more for the Soviet Union than the people who are knowingly working...
With a little bit of luck, as the song goes, things should be different this year. Two of the team's trademarks last season were an awesome ground game, which permitted the Crimson to control the flow of most contests, but an anemic inability to put the ball into...
...Alevizos didn't tire too often this season--he amassed 32 strikeouts and only 14 walks in 41 innings. He retains his customary good control, and now supplements his specialty--a good, moving fastball--with more off- speed stuff...
Another major difference is stands on birth control. For the average North American feminist, contraception and abortion symbolize social emancipation. In Nicaragua, however, "You're not a real woman if you don't have children," one female Sandinist says. Because of the Roman Catholic Church's heavy influence, abortions are only legal (and gratis) when the mother's or unborn child's lives are endangered. Because the FSLN government wants to repopulate Nicaragua (which lost 30,000 people during the war), contraception is not encouraged. Nor is it discouraged--family planning counseling and devices are free to all women, regardless...
Government and religious pressure seem to be successful. According to Maritza Flores Vega, a spokesman for the National Ministry of Health, less than 10 per cent of Nicaraguan women use birth control. Why? "Partly because people want children born in 'Free Nicaragua,' and partly because many uneducated women associate contraception with Somoza's forcibly sterilizing thousands of peasant women...