Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under this $40 billion scheme, the missiles would be wheeled around 200 high-security drag strips scattered over 10,000 miles in the desert wastes of the West. This brobdingnagian shell game is intended to foil any Soviet strike by baffling the enemy: unaware of each missile's actual location, the Soviets would be obliged to target all 4,600 MX shelters to guarantee success. But the drag strip system has been assailed by critics (including Presidential Candidate Reagan) as technologically dubious and ridiculously expensive. Two months ago the powerful, conservative Mormon church joined the naysayers, beseeching the White...
This is true of men, women, children, individually and in groups of all sizes. Nations and the realm of politics lean heavily on indirect gesture and charades to convey important messages. Take Secretary of State Alexander Haig's talks in China: Was not his actual purpose to send a signal to the Soviets? Societies signal prevalent values to their members by what is applauded and what condemned; status symbol is synonymous with status signal. "Language," said Samuel Johnson, "is the dress of thought." But all over the world people act as though language were mere costume-and usually...
...falsified credentials on her application. If the charge is proved, she could be deported. And if Hak Ja Han is deported, Moon would eventually lose the permanent resident status that was granted him in 1973 because he was married to her. Both remain citizens of South Korea. The actual deportation process, if it occurs at all, could take years. But the proceedings may begin in a few weeks...
After weighing the offer for a mere two days, Conoco's directors rejected it. One reason: though generous in terms of the stock's market value on Wall Street, the offer amounted to only about half of the company's actual net worth. Among other assets, Conoco owns the U.S.'s No. 2 coal producer, Consolidation Coal Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., and is a major North Sea oil producer...
...reproductions of The Kiss and The Thinker are the very furniture of cliché? Yet this exhibition shows us what we did not know. It brings forth not the debased Rodin of popular culture, or Rodin the herald of a modernism he did not live to see, but the actual artist, embedded in the 19th century, soaked in its values and yet struggling to transcend and alter them. It also clarifies, as never before, the taxing issue of what makes a Rodin "original." He did not work like a modern artist. He seldom carved his own marbles, never cast...