Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...menaces there now were: missile technologies left in the ashes of the Third Reich and the aggressive ideology of an ally turned archrival. Also, as the supreme world power to emerge from the war, we nourished what Walter Lippmann called "the totally vain notion that if we do not set the world in order, no matter what the price, we cannot live in the world safely." All these factors awakened worries about security and a striving for protective measures, mainly military ones...
...Edward I. Koch against a black challenger, Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, came the murder of Yusuf Hawkins. He was a 16-year- old black who with a group of friends ventured into the tightly knit, mostly Italian Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to inspect a used car. They were set upon by a gang of whites armed with baseball bats and a gun. When the melee was over, Hawkins lay dead with two bullet wounds in his chest...
...with overall sales totaling little more than $55 million against estimates of about $86 million to more than $112 million. The prices of "name" artists, from Willem de Kooning to Eric Fischl and Jean-Michel Basquiat, were humiliatingly trounced, although a few -- Cy Twombly, Richard Diebenkorn -- saw new levels set for their work...
With each passing month, a few more hospitals decide they can no longer stand the strain. Chicago has lost four of its ten trauma centers -- specialized units set up within hospitals to handle victims of car wrecks, violence and other life-threatening injuries. In Dade County, Fla., every hospital has dropped out of the trauma network, except James M. Jackson Memorial: one trauma center for more than 2 million residents. Many other emergency departments across the country have "down licensed," or substantially reduced the scope of their emergency services...
Moses said that the changed format was "not a direct response to some particular requests from a particular group or a particular set of events, but my own notion that the meeting could be made more useful to freshmen...