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appeals court; appellate court

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Susan Sontag

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pop culture

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high culture

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both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold

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Sontag

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sociology

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reef; leaf

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side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time

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commentary

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culture

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not serious; frivolous; insincere; unsteady

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bad taste

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equipment; harness; fittings

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Saitou

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Tomiyama Takao

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in (of a ball, in tennis, etc.); inside the line; in; inside; enter here; enter

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Kobata Kazue

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books

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lush mountain; green mountain; grave; burial place

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Bosnia

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Iraq War (2003-2011)

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Abu Ghraib prison (Iraq)

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breast cancer

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Sarajevo

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Waiting for Godot (1948 play by Samuel Beckett)

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Godeaux

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theatre of the absurd (theater)

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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(on the) verge of death

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revamping; reshaping; rearranging; reorganizing

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Gorbachev

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party-internal; within the party

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clerk; secretary; writing down; putting on record

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advanced level; high grade; senior

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politburo; political bureau (of a communist party)

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clerk; (bureau, post-office) staff

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Leonid Brezhnev

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fluid; unsettled

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Yuri Andropov

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Konstantin Chernenko

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secretary general; chief secretary

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to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate

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domestic economy

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stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation

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Eastern European countries

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Ronald Reagan

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perestroika (USSR reform movement)

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reconstruction

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glasnost; Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues in the 1980s

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