Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Britain's foreign minister, called Britain's action "a measured action in respect of established misbehavior" and termed the Soviet response unjustified. Howe said Britain has "incontrovertible evidence" of wrongdoing by the expelled Soviets...
...Halberstam, author of such books as The Best and the Brightest and The Reckoning, this new work may be his most appealing, mainly because it is quirky and informal and the author leaves his moral fervor in the bat rack. He intersperses the season's important action with portraits of key personnel: the Yanks' Tommy Henrich, Jerry Coleman, Yogi Berra; the Sox's Bobby Doerr, Ellis Kinder, Johnny Pesky. While he does adequately by Boston, clearly his heart is in the Bronx. In his hagiography, the Yankees are a little more godlike. Perhaps they were...
...action raised concern that the White House is not serious about dealing with the greenhouse threat. And the pressure on Bush increased when Britain called for rapid drafting of an international treaty to address global warming. Finally on Thursday, even as the President was busy reacting to the crisis in Panama, the White House sent a special cable to the U.S. delegation attending a U.N.-sponsored environment meeting in Geneva. The cable, signed by chief of staff John Sununu, directed the American representatives to invite the other participating nations to a global-warming workshop in Washington this fall. Said Sununu...
...that affirmative action makes you dependent on the good will of whites rather than on your own actions?"--Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 addressing minority faculty members at a highly charged faculty discussion of the Verba Report on hiring minority and women faculty on Tuesday...
...frequent fantasy is to annihilate the Playboy magazine mentality that she blames for psychologically crippling women by attaching a Playmate's age and dimensions to female sexuality. "Someday we will have porn films with 55-year-old women in them," predicts Lear. "Already, we know there is plenty of action in Sun City...