Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...students' main contention in the suit is that the Law School's failure to use a set of objective criteria in evaluating prospective faculty members biases the process against women and minorities...
...set the record straight: the Harvard women's basketball team should be ready for Saturday's Ivy opener against Dartmouth...
...this outpost, set among the mines, was softer than most military bases. Dozens of encouraging banners from universities and labor organizations hung on the walls of the shelter, which provided almost all the amenities anyone could want under the circumstances. A well-stocked kitchen. Warm blankets. Scathing hot showers...
...Warsaw Pact party chiefs, only Ceausescu dared to order his security forces to shoot after Gorbachev had made it clear that the Soviet army would not back them up. But then Ceausescu for many years had set himself apart from his East bloc brethren. He was cheered by the West as the "maverick" of the Pact and praised for his refusal to allow Soviet troops on his soil, to participate in the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 or to support the Soviet war in Afghanistan...
...entire party leadership resigned under public pressure. A caretaker regime has set free elections for May 6. No matter how the Communist Party reorganizes or renames itself, it is finished as a significant factor in East German politics. Up to 1 million of its 2.3 million members have already turned in their party cards...