Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Commission, with representatives for everyone from the environmentalists to the peace movement, has set out to hold hearings nationwide on how to make institutional changes. Most likely, the Commission will propose election reforms to ensure greater voter turnout and more accurate representation for those voters...
...landmark decision, the Justices set some conditions that will keep Nancy Cruzan and thousands of other comatose patients alive against their families' wishes...
...Wall down when a trickle of East Berliners and Leipzigers and Dresdeners appeared on the Champs Elysees and the Via Veneto. Long confined to holidays within the socialist bloc -- beaches on the Black Sea or the chilly waters of the Baltic -- thousands of Easterners will no doubt soon set out for venues of the dolce vita, the requisite deutsche marks in their pockets...
During the debate, Lithuanian Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene warned that relief must be found from the economic sanctions imposed in April by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev: "We have to do something. We have to take a risk." The resolution set a time limit and stipulated that it could be extended or terminated only by the Lithuanians. These conditions finally brought the more cautious President Vytautas Landsbergis on board and made a lifting of the blockade possible...
...executive admitted that he realized soon after accepting the $150 million contract in 1984, purportedly for pharmaceuticals and insecticides, that it was for making nerve gas. Still, he set up a dummy Hong Kong company and cleared $12 million in profits...