Word: present
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Burmese in the Thai village of Wang Kauo; by the time the fighting was over, twelve Karens and 70 Burmese were dead, and the village was a charred ruin. Kyaw Lin remembers stepping over dead bodies, but little else. He likes to keep his mind, he says, on the present. That means thinking about Komura, about dropping into trenches when the shelling starts, and about waiting for his turn at the front line. Kyaw Lin has a child's simple interpretation of rotation: "Sometimes I go to the front to replace my friends...
...widely hailed as an event that would introduce an era of world peace because it would enhance communication between different peoples. Shortly afterward, the U.S. Civil War broke out, and the opposing armies took over telegraph offices, establishing a coupling between information technology and warfare that continues to the present...
Allison and his fellow curators have wisely refrained from predicting the future, focusing instead on the discoveries that have brought humanity to its present juncture. Perhaps, though, one of the many schoolchildren visiting the exhibit will look with fresh eyes at its displays and have the flash of intuition that holds the key to the next technological revolution...
...candidate member, he was expected to show proper respect for his superiors, especially General Secretary Gorbachev. Instead he chose to treat the ritualized meetings as a setting for serious debate. In the summer of 1987 he boldly offered a long list of objections to a report Gorbachev planned to present on the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The party chief stormed out and left the other members sitting silently for half an hour before he returned. At that moment, Yeltsin said, "Gorbachev simply hated...
Something like that spirit has reawakened in the reign of Elizabeth's namesake, the present monarch. In this similarly acquisitive age, new Elizabethans like Lord Hanson and Sir James Goldsmith appear as contemporary Sir Francis Drakes, wreaking their havoc among clumsy corporate galleons. But the staid giants of British business -- the ships of the line, so to speak -- are hardly less daring in their sorties abroad. Nor have the kingdom's investment managers lagged behind...