Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cipher. His five-year plan for constitutional change, presented at the National Party congress last summer, is empty of specifics; his rhetoric is soothing but ambiguous and dotted with the charged code words of apartheid. Yet this mild, bland politician startled the nation upon taking office with a display of bold pronouncements and a previously undiscovered talent for doing the unexpected. Although the changes he has made are still largely cosmetic, he has succeeded in transforming the atmosphere of South Africa and nudging his reluctant white countrymen to accept the idea that change is inevitable...
...wanted a piece people could interact with," said Prince, whose two paintings are currently on display at the Harvard Union...
...speak, we pass the U.S. embassy, smaller than the U.S.S.R.'s, less imposing, and, with its picture-window display of satellite views from outer space, it seems even less relevant to these new East Europeans...
...widespread vote rigging for candidates favored by Rajiv Gandhi's Congress Party (I) in the 1987 elections that created a generation of committed young radicals ready to die for the secessionist cause. With the encouragement of V.P. Singh, the new Prime Minister, the state government recently attempted a display of good faith by ^ releasing 47 suspected militants and by promising talks with the rebels. But for many Kashmiris, the time for demonstrations of good faith is long past...
...hasten Myra's debut. Moments after her birth at 15 seconds past midnight on Jan. 1, Turner hustled the 6-lb. 12-oz. baby to the Melodyland Christian Center 150 ft. away, where the nationally televised Praise the Lord program was being filmed. Turner may have hoped to display Myra as one of 1990's first babies. Alas, the lights and cameras had been turned off at midnight. Although Turner says the baby was in no danger from his Hollywood-style obstetrics, the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance is investigating...