Word: majority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first major test only 24 hours after the session began, the Congress rejected a bid by Baltic deputies and members of the reformist Inter-Regional Deputies Group to debate Article Six of the Soviet Constitution that proclaims the Communist Party "the leading and guiding force of Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system...
...luxury of a quarterly publication is that one can judge major issues over the long term, as well as address potential ones," she said...
...must have known that he couldn't stay a starter for long in front of the team's leading scorer, Ralph James, and sure enough, he found himself coming off the bench in the Holy Cross and CCSU games. But Rullman has played well enough to be considered a major threat when the Crimson enters Ivy play...
That is bad news for Wall Street, where buyouts have propped up stock prices and brought in fat advisory fees. Faced with a drop in the number of mergers and acquisitions, which fell 29% during the July-September quarter compared with 1988's third period, major investment firms have announced the layoffs of nearly 2,000 employees in recent months. Particularly sharp cutbacks have come at Shearson Lehman Hutton, which is dismissing 800 of its nearly 37,000 workers and said last week it would reshuffle its top management...
...rebels recently dealt some major blows to Mengistu's troops, which are among the best-equipped in Africa, courtesy of $500 million yearly in Soviet aid. Tigre-led forces are 80 miles from the capital and may sever its links with the country's major port. The government is conscripting women and children and threatening to divert all development aid to mobilization. At gunpoint or with threats of confiscating ration cards, soldiers dragoon crowds for "patriotic" rallies. Mengistu narrowly missed assassination two months...