Word: acidic
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...since Czar Nicholas wed Alexandra in 1894 have Russians encountered a ruler's wife with such presence, such personality, such promise as a subject of mild jokes and elevated eyebrows as Raisa Gorbachev. She is the first spouse of a Soviet leader to weigh less than he does, acid tongues have it in Moscow, and the first "Czarina," as some of her fellow citizens mock her, to appear in the Kremlin since the fall of the Romanovs. She is also the first Soviet First Lady to use an American Express card and, as a member of the board...
...special park, but a downtown sidewalk will do just as nicely. The action is fast, furious and decidedly funky. Uniforms are not required, but style is vital, and the available styles are great. You can talk about it in resonant slang whose references to half pipes and acid drops, crackin' Ollies and catchin' air can be as arcane as a Rosicrucian oath. You can do it in the country or city, by a beach or across some asphalt. It's risky but not all that dangerous. And the cops don't like it. Perfect...
...implication was that For the Record was unique in its venom and singular in its criticism. Yet apart from its astrological revelations and acid-limned portrait of the First Lady, it is not so much in a class by itself as the latest addition to a long, groaning shelf. Deaver. Haig. Stockman. Speakes. Regan. Even two Reagan children, Patti and Michael, have written slap-and-yell books about the First Family. And more are on the way. Helene von Damm, once Reagan's personal assistant and later Ambassador to Austria, has reportedly penned something less than a valentine...
Whatever its failings, the report was well timed. Foot dragging by the Reagan Administration on acid rain was attacked on several fronts last week in Washington. Testifying before a House subcommittee, James Mahoney, the new director of the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, a group formed by Congress in 1980 to examine policy options on acid rain, distanced himself from a report by his predecessors that downplayed the problem...
...E.D.F. report coincided with a visit to Washington by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who has tried unsuccessfully for years to persuade the Reagan Administration to tackle the acid-rain problem. Mulroney last week called the situation a "rapidly escalating ecological tragedy." Even before his arrival, however, Washington rejected a Canadian proposal that the U.S. limit nitrogen-oxide emissions...