Word: established
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present, but the real thing. Some individuals by reason of accident or disease (generally alcoholism) suffer from what is called Korsakoff's psychosis: they have no memory. Not that they have forgotten their ancient childhood memories. They often retain these. But they have lost entirely the capacity to establish new memories. Everything they see, everything they hear, everything they think, they forget within seconds. Introduce yourself to a Korsakoffian, leave the room, and return a minute later. He will have no recollection...
...political challenges that confronted Gorbachev included the first walkout of the session, staged by members from Lithuania, one of the country's three Baltic republics and a hotbed of nationalism. They were provoked by a plan, backed by Gorbachev, to establish a commission empowered to have the final say on constitutional disputes. Baltic deputies viewed the proposal as one more way for Moscow to impose its will on the 14 non-Russian republics. "Our electors ordered us to take care of the sovereignty of our republics," declared Romas Gudaitis, a writer and deputy from Lithuania. Gorbachev was clearly exasperated...
Among other family features: payments of up to $2,000 to cover costs when workers adopt children and a $5 million fund to help support and establish child-care centers. But the benefits were not free. In return for these and other new provisions, employees agreed to forgo automatic cost of living adjustments...
...mediator was played by the Twelve Imams, who were thought to be the rightful successors to the Prophet Muhammad and who combined religious and secular authority. Most Shi'ites continue to believe that the Twelfth Imam, who disappeared in A.D. 940, will one day emerge from hiding to establish a purified Islamic state. Some Iranians hailed Khomeini as an Imam qualified to be the deputy for the Shi'ite messiah...
...limited partnership and gathered $105,000 from 21 conservative supporters to underwrite the project. Window sold only 12,000 copies, but the lost investments turned into tax write-offs for the backers. Gingrich's wife Marianne was paid a salary of $11,500 for her work in helping establish the partnership. Democrats filed a formal complaint about the book deal with the House ethics committee in April; Common Cause joined in last month, and Gingrich expects the issue to be taken up this week...