Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Finally, in August 1988, Berge, the dynamic president of Yves Saint Laurent, was appointed to run the project. Five months later, he set off the biggest flap of all when he unceremoniously fired Daniel Barenboim and shelved the conductor's programming plans. By May of last year, when Chung, plucked from | the obscurity of the Saarland Radio Orchestra in West Germany, was named Barenboim's surprise successor, the new administration had little more to offer than a notion that the house would open early this year, with something, sung by somebody or other. The stage seemed set for disaster...
...Have you set any specific goals for yourself...
...Supreme Soviet last week fine-tuned a law that would require a republic to hold a referendum in which two-thirds of the permanent residents vote in favor of secession. The national legislature would then review the results and set a transition period of up to five years before independence could be achieved. But that statute is unlikely to affect the fait accompli already presented to Gorbachev by the Lithuanians...
...years to test out their theories," he said. "Look at what they gave us." He gestured toward a crumbling row of apartments. A few blocks away, in Halle's central market place, the CDU's campaign promise of quick prosperity seemed to have already arrived. West German vendors had set up tables in the square, selling everything from leather coats and potted plants to French asparagus and Italian kiwifruits...
...number of successful executions they had furthered. Though state Treasurer Ann Richards also supports the death penalty, she had to labor under the disadvantage of having been endorsed by editors of a newspaper produced by death-row inmates at the state prison in Huntsville. With Mattox and Richards set to face each other again in a runoff election in April, the issue is sure to loom large. "Maybe the next step will be scratch-and-sniff ads, so voters can sample the smell of the death chamber," complains Richards' campaign spokesman Mark McKinnon...