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Word: maneuverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Events are moving swiftly in Venezuela too. No sooner did Caracas refinance nearly two-thirds of its $35 billion foreign debt last February than plummeting oil prices made the agreement obsolete. The free fall is knocking at least $5 billion off the country's petroleum revenues, which account for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poor Little Energy-Rich Kids | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

The victory of the LaRouche candidates left the Democratic Party in agitated disarray and may torpedo Stevenson's chances. Though candidates for statewide offices in Illinois are chosen individually, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor must run in tandem in November. Stevenson is considering forming a third party, a complicated maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics From the Twilight Zone | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

DESPITE THE LIMITATIONS of the cast, the play is hilarious. Unfortunately, many of these laughs seem to come at the expense of the script, and some of them come at the expense of the cast. The set for the first half of the play is remarkable only for the number...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: One Dark Night in Scotland | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

Once the voting was over, the reformers prepared to take a more active part in the efforts to topple Marcos. By this time they had won the support of some of the Marcos family's closest security forces. Says one reformist: "I don't think the President thought that so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Anatomy of a Revolution | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

In recent months Gorbachev has been removing Brezhnev-era holdovers with a blend of maneuver and muscle. Grigory Romanov, the Politburo member responsible for the Soviet Union's military-industrial complex, who reportedly tried to block Gorbachev's rise to power and became the target of a whispering campaign about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union the Reformers Lead the Way | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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