Word: a11
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November 1981, as the U.S. and the Soviet Union were preparing to meet in Geneva, President Reagan proposed the "zero option": NATO would forgo its planned deployment altogether if the Soviets would dismantle a11 of their aging SS-4 and SS-5 missiles, plus all 250 of the more accurate SS-20s then in place (the current number: 351). This offer came to be widely criticized in Western Europe, first by the peace movement and later by some governments, as inflexible and unrealistic. Yet it appears that the zero-option concept originated in Western Europe. It had been mentioned...
...Boston Symphony. The patrician Boston Symphony is the quintessential major orchestra: old (101) and wealthy, with a comfortable home in the acoustically excellent Symphony Hall and a bucolic summer retreat at Tanglewood, in the Berkshires. A11 this would not be worth much, though, if the orchestra did not play so consistently well: under music directors as disparate in taste and talents as Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf and, now, Seiji Ozawa, 47, it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to almost any type of music conductorial style. Boston's full strings, warm winds and elegant brass...
...went to Washington believing he had a mandate for the principles and priorities he had espoused for most of his adult life. At home, the source of most evil is swollen, all-intrusive Big Government. It must be cut down, by deregulation and slashes in social spending and, above a11, by reducing taxes. Abroad, the source of very nearly all evil is the aggressive and expanding Soviet Union, which must be faced down by a rapid buildup in the armed might...
...think it odd to describe the immediate future as bright and exciting. Even a sanguine disposition might characterize the present in Charles Dickens' ambivalent words: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Granting all this and more, granting-nay, emphasizing-that a11 times are a mixed bag, still I would emphasize the best of times. Let me put it to you directly as a colleague put it to me when I asked him what I should say in a commencement address. He replied, 'Can you think of a better time...
C.C.C.S. is a nonprofit organization sponsored by banks, loan companies, retailers and other businesses that grant credit. It has some 200 offices a11 over the U.S. and deals with about 110,000 cases a year. Its method is very simple: it makes the insolvent debtor give up all his credit cards and promise not to do any more borrowing without permission. Then it works out a survival budget that will enable the client to pay back part of his debt every month. It persuades the creditors to wait for their money and then assumes responsibility for dividing and distributing...