Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fundamental disputes between the two nations scarcely lend themselves to bargaining. Human rights, regional conflicts and other such matters are often on summit agendas but rarely lead to solid deals. Arms control has thus become the coin of the realm for superpower diplomacy. Nuclear missiles, unsuitable for use as actual weapons of war, are deployed and manipulated as symbols of power, retaining only a vague connection to any possibility that their implied threat might ever be carried out. As such they can be traded easily, or at least more easily than other aspects of superpower conduct...
Becky J. Stapan and Kathy L. Dortzbach, juniorsrepresenting Burma from the James Madison Memorialschool in Madison, Wisconsin, thought the bestpart of the conference was "meeting people. That'sthe only reason some people come--just for fun."But they said they also enjoyed the opportunity todebate actual world issues...
...leadoff leg, Suhs completed 100 yards in 51.12 seconds, .03 seconds faster than the "old" school record, set by Suhs only 45 minutes earlier in the actual 100 freestyle event. Suhs contributed to four golds in the meet, with her final win being in the 50 freestyle, topping the field with a time of 23.76 seconds...
...bathtub at the Hay-Adams Hotel. Which soaped-up Washington wife was with him when he hit the porcelain, and whom will President Kane (Dean's maiden name) appoint to replace him? Who cares? Fictional names and events are mixed up with the names of real people and actual events, and what comes out is slicker than lip gloss...
...never saw any actual confirmation that [the allegations were] true," said Joseph D. O'Connell, spokesman for the USIA...