Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heads the International Olympic Committee, flew from the Manhattan torch-carrying ceremony to Washington for a prearranged meeting with Ronald Reagan. It was already too late: even as they waited at New York City's La Guardia Airport for their chartered jet, they got the first indication of an actual Soviet pullout, news that was confirmed when they reached Washington. Nonetheless, they received from the President a letter pledging strict U.S. adherence to Olympic ideals. Reagan states in his letter to Samaranch: "I have instructed agencies of the Federal Government to cooperate fully with Olympic and local officials to ensure...
...what they could do to cushion the blow. The controlled press in the U.S.S.R. for months has been running lurid depictions of Los Angeles as a sinkhole of smog, drugs and pornography, and has even been warning that Soviet Olympic athletes might be kidnaped there. The announcement of the actual pullout from the Games was carefully timed to coincide less with the arrival of the Olympic flame in New York than with the Soviet national holiday celebrating victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. And then it was heavily downplayed?a short story on the back page of Pravda...
...ring after two years in retirement, fans of the former welterweight champion were divided between celebration and concern. Some doctors warned that the fighter, who has had operations on the retinas of both eyes, was recklessly risking his vision. But despite success as a TV personality, Leonard "missed the actual competition." Last week he took on Kevin Howard, 22, in Worcester, Mass., and stopped him in a ninth-round TKO. But the ex-champ was knocked down once, the first time in his pro career, and decided his comeback was no go. Minutes after the fight, he announced, "That...
Such efforts, however, generally prove futile. The more parents attempt to insulate their children, the more their kids wind up feeling anger and frustration. Consequently, when actual tragedy does strike, paralysis results...
...Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rejected that reasoning. "Consumers Union was guilty of using imprecise language in the article," the court conceded in throwing out the award, but "this does not support an inference of actual malice." Bose went to the Supreme Court, where its attorneys argued that the appeals court had exceeded its authority by weighing the basic facts of the case-whether or not there was falsehood and malice-which is the responsibility of the trial court. Not so, concluded Stevens for the majority, ruling in effect that First Amendment guarantees of free speech...