Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...reproduced wherever a white middle class is close to a black high-crime area. Duke practices what I think of as cocaine politics. Like cocaine, his appeal is easily transported, easily concealed and highly addictive." There are rumblings around the nation that show the spread has already begun. Though Lee Atwater was quick to dissociate the national party from Duke, many Republicans feel that opposition to affirmative action and set-asides is a stand too rewarding to be renounced...
...author and a founding editor of a new joint U.S.-weekly newspaper, did the translating and editing, in collaboration with Vyacheslav Luchkov, a scholar and expert on Soviet psychology. The title, Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, underscores the connection between Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Says Talbott: "As though anticipating what Gorbachev tried to do, Khrushchev even uses the word perestroika in his own appeal for sweeping reconstruction of the Soviet political and economic system...
...question during the 1988 presidential race was, What does Jesse want? For the present at least, the answer is, To be a TV star. Early this month, Jackson made headlines (though not as many as he would have liked) when he traveled to Baghdad in the role of TV reporter to interview Saddam Hussein. Now he is about to get his own weekly TV forum...
...story of Sergei Kirov's murder helps draw back the curtain on how the meat grinder of the purges got started. First, though, I must describe the atmosphere of those times -- the early days, before a petty bourgeois mentality began to take over the party. Those were romantic times. We gave no thought to dachas and fancy clothes. All our time was spent on work...
...sent a military delegation to Cuba to inform Fidel about our proposals and get his consent. Castro gave his approval. We wanted to do the whole thing in secret. Our security organs assured us this was possible even though American planes overflew Cuban territory all the time. Supposedly, the palm trees would keep our missiles from being seen from the air. We installed the missiles aboveground because silos would have required too much time to build and we believed there was not much time before the Americans invaded. It was our intention after installing the missiles to announce their presence...