Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listed 25 British diplomats, businessmen and journalists who would have to leave Moscow within three weeks. Ambassador Sir Bryan Cartledge was called to the foreign ministry and told that those being expelled had engaged in "activities incompatible with their status," diplomatic language for spying. Cartledge described the charges as absurd. At week's end it was not clear whether Britain would raise the stakes by ejecting still more Soviet officials who might have been fingered by Gordievsky...
...Africa and corporate disinvestment from the country are concepts once abstracted from brutal reality. If that is the case, then Harvard's policy of "intensive dialogue" with portfolio companies operating in South Africa is twice abstracted from reality, now so irrelevant to South African conditions as to be utterly absurd. If Harvard continues to argue that the University's current policy can make a difference in South Africa, its words will sound more and more like an apologia for the status quo than a realistic program for change...
...Africa and corporate disinvestment from the country are concepts once abstracted from brutal reality. If that is the case, then Harvard's policy of "intensive dialogue" with portfolio companies operating in South Africa is twice abstracted from reality, now so irrelevant to South African conditions as to be utterly absurd. If Harvard continues to argue that the University's current policy can make a difference in South Africa, its words will sound more and more like an apologia for the status quo than a realistic program for change...
...Africa and corporate disinvestment from the country are concepts once abstracted from brutal reality. If that is the case, then Harvard's policy of "intensive dialogue" with portfolio companies operating in South Africa is twice abstracted from reality, now so irrelevant to South African conditions as to be utterly absurd. If Harvard continues to argue that the University's current policy can make a difference in South Africa, its words will sound more and more like an apologia for the status quo than a realistic program for change...
...dust would seem to be self-defeating, since the number of people spreading it would increase exponentially, from 500-odd Americans (180 of whom work at the embassy) to countless Soviet citizens with whom they have routine dealings. The Soviet government officially dismissed the U.S. charges as "absurd" and "outrageous." At a White House briefing in Los Angeles, Spokesman Larry Speakes suggested that the Kremlin's leaders, including Gorbachev, may not have known about the spy dust. There was more than a hint of a taunt in his remarks, however, as he noted that the Soviet military and KGB sometimes...