Word: split
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected, the first-round leader was the crusading center-rightist * Fernando Collor de Mello, a former state governor. At week's end, two candidates who split the leftist vote were deadlocked for the second slot: Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Leonel Brizola...
...Venezuela has recently joined the Non-Aligned Movement. There's a view in Washington that the NAM is less relevant and coherent than in the past, that it has split up into regional and parochial groups. So you've joined a club just at the point when that club might be going out of business. How would you respond to that...
About 2000 demonstrators split away and crossed a bridge over the Vltava river in an apparent attempt to reach the hillside presidential residence...
With breathtaking speed, the hideous partition that split Berlin falls to the pickax of reforms inspired by Mikhail Gorbachev. As the city exults and the world ponders the consequences, one thing is certain: nothing will ever be quite the same again. -- Is one Germany better than two? -- An obituary for the Wall of Shame, where some 75 people yearning for freedom have perished...
This fall, Proposition 1-2-3 split the Independents. One group of pro-1-2-3 candidates--including Councillor William H. Walsh--formed the "Today's Independents" slate, which hoped to capitalize on support for the referendum...