Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cute, but the then trendy CIA and the media picked it up, and the designation stuck. At his first press conference in January, however, President Reagan noted that "SALT means Strategic Arms Limitation, but . . . we should start negotiating on the basis of trying to effect an actual reduction." So National Security Adviser Richard Allen started START. Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA, which rhymes roughly with actor, at least in Boston), used the new term at his Senate confirmation hearings and helped give it currency...
...lifted the ban on salvage operations that had been in effect because of the ship's war grave status. Several costly searches for the cruiser were made by British, Norwegian and Russian companies to no avail, since both British and German records had mistaken the wreck's actual location. But last week a team of civilian divers was laboriously bringing to the surface 23-lb. gold bars taken from the cruiser's ammunition room. It quickly became one of the most lucrative deep-sea salvage missions ever undertaken. By week's end, more than $50 million...
Within five minutes, the owner said, the police arrived at the GNC and apprehended the suspect. The actual arrest was delayed, the manager of the GNC said, because the suspect did not have the two stolen shirts in his possession...
Perhaps the title of the editorial reveals the Crimson's actual position on Gay Rights even better than was intended. The title read This Year, Total Victory, and I suppose the Crimson will not be satisfied until Gays really do achieve "victory", which seems to translate to preferential treatment, or else Crimson editorialists come to their senses and realize what it is they are asking...
...actual presentation of evidence took 67 days but proved remarkably inconclusive. Because prison officials had justifiably concentrated on disarming and locking up the 700 rioting convicts, they failed to produce such key evidence as murder weapons and fingerprints. The jurors finally took only five hours of deliberation to acquit all ten defendants. "I'm sure some of them must have been guilty of something," says Tumino, "but the state had no evidence...