Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister gave a qualified blessing to the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative, the so-called Star Wars space-based missile defense plan, which the Soviets have angrily denounced. But Thatcher limited her support of the controversial scheme to research, not to actual testing and deployment. According to close aides, the Prime Minister has serious doubts about the scientific feasibility and strategic logic of Star Wars. She cautioned that the Soviets might attempt to use the arms-control talks in Geneva, scheduled to begin March 12, "to sow differences among us." Said Thatcher: "Let us be under no illusions...
Thus the court adopted a new, higher standard of proof that public officials would have to meet as plaintiffs: they would have to prove "actual malice" on the part of the journalist. That meant something far more sweeping than political opposition or personal ill will; malice was defined as, at minimum, publishing a story despite having substantial doubt beforehand that it was true. At the time, this distinction was considered effective immunity for any responsible news organization. The actual malice standard, it appeared, simply left the door open a crack for suits by public officials against scandal sheets...
...flash--that a guy, an actor, could come off the screen and involve himself in the real world. Then I started having doubts. It wasn't until I realized that, my God, if he came off the screen, there would be repercussions on the actual actor in Hollywood. And the subject met the criteria for a film worth working on: it could be amusing, touching, interesting to watch, and there was also the proper potential for visuals...
...unspecified) through the Farmers < Home Administration and also to ease the terms under which the Government will guarantee repayment of $650 million in loans from commercial banks to farmers. Boren and his allies reluctantly accepted this as the most that could be achieved immediately. But when Boren took the actual letter to a meeting of all 47 Democratic Senators Thursday afternoon, they rejected it unanimously. The Democrats were incensed by a sentence in which Block called any additional extension of credit or loan guarantees to farmers "unnecessary...
...nonproliferation treaty, designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. More than 90 other nations have similar arrangements with the IAEA, including the U.S., which signed an inspection agreement in 1980. Moscow did not agree to the idea in principle until 1982, and subsequent negotiations on the actual terms of the new document took 16 months. How important a concession is the accord? That may depend on what Soviet facilities have been opened for inspection: the latest, advanced civilian nuclear plants, or merely old, outdated ones...