Word: particularize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...anniversary of the bloody 1970 riots on the Baltic coast was planned for this week, and officials worried lest it get out of hand. If it did, Soviet troops stood on alert at Poland's borders. "The Poles," said a concerned analyst in Bonn, "seem to have a particular talent for courting national suicide." But the workers were not contemplating retreat. Said Union Leader Lech Walesa: "We are not cowards. We are not going back, ever...
...transition team sources said that the proposal was not designed to fit any particular individual, but they acknowledged that Pipes, a specialist on Soviet affiars, would be one candidate...
...time of the University Hall bust, he recalls, he knew he did not want to give any legitimacy to the Committee of Fifteen's proceedings by attending his own hearing. Besides disapproving of the particular practices of the committee, Berg felt that its purpose--to determine who was guilty and who wasn't--showed that University administrators had missed the whole point of the collective political action on campus in those years...
...lawyer's sense that your purpose is to serve your client," says Meese, a former prosecutor. "My service to Ronald Reagan is to see that he gets objective advice and to filter out my own personal viewpoint. But the idea that I don't have any particular philosophical viewpoints is baloney...
Another questionable aspect of the coal deal, according to the Government lawyers, was its timing. The IRS sharply curtailed this particular kind of tax shelter...