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Allied with Moscow and Havana, Mr. Ortega's government fought U.S.-backed peasant contra rebels as Nicaragua went from a sleepy Central American backwater to a Cold-War battleground.
Nicaragua's Ortega Set to Win Election José de Córdoba 2011
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The huge subterranean barrel-vaulted basilica — carrying an extravagant inscription in the narthex recording its expedient Cold-War dedication by Pope John XXIII — extends the entire length and breadth of a small conical mountain, at the summit of which rises a granite cross.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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At the time, Mr. Hastings was chairman of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a group set up in the 1970s to monitor a Cold-War era pact.
Florida Lawmaker Faces Ethics Review Gary Fields 2011
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The huge subterranean barrel-vaulted basilica — carrying an extravagant inscription in the narthex recording its expedient Cold-War dedication by Pope John XXIII — extends the entire length and breadth of a small conical mountain, at the summit of which rises a granite cross.
El Escorial 2009
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He called this “a scenario that would throw us back into the Cold-War era.”
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At the time, Mr. Hastings was chairman of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a group set up in the 1970s to monitor a Cold-War era pact.
Harassment Case Moves to Ethics Committee Gary Fields 2012
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Our alliances with wealthy allies in Europe and East Asia were constructed in the Cold-War era to defeat an adversary that ceased to exist two decades ago, but Hillary Clinton tells us that they are embedded in our DNA.
Rahim Kanani: An In-Depth Interview With Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute Rahim Kanani 2011
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• End the War in Afghanistan and substantially reduce Cold-War level military budgets.
Miles Mogulescu: The Krugman/Stiglitz Army Is on the March (and It's Too Late for Michael Bloomberg to Stop It) Miles Mogulescu 2011
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Our alliances with wealthy allies in Europe and East Asia were constructed in the Cold-War era to defeat an adversary that ceased to exist two decades ago, but Hillary Clinton tells us that they are embedded in our DNA.
Rahim Kanani: An In-Depth Interview With Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute Rahim Kanani 2011
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The Jackson-Vannick agreement — a Cold-War era U.S. provision which made favored-nation trading status dependent on emigration rights for religious minorities — had "served its historic purpose" and may be repealed by Congress as early as next year, removing another key sticking point in U.S.
Summers: Russia to Join WTO Within a Year Ira Iosebashvili 2010
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