Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick to pick up telltale clues that something might be amiss with Andropov. During his first four months in office, the onetime KGB chief has lost weight. He has kept to a rigorous daily schedule, but after meeting with a delegation from Mozambique on March 2, he seemed to adopt an even lower profile than usual. Curiosity grew when TASS failed to print a summary of the weekly meeting of the ruling Politburo, as has been the custom recently, a possible indication that the gathering had been called off. But it was only after Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov returned...
...career...she was interested in her political survival." Heckler managed to appear to be against the budget, while actually helping to pass it--that is, until Barney Frank called her bluff. As Pierce says, "Heckler's strategy was always something like 'for my own survival I will adopt this position for a while and drop it when people forget about it. 'But with unemployment as high as it is in Fall River, people don't forget about Ergonomics." He adds, "Margaret was straddling a gap so wide she fell...
...keepers. Gerald abandoned painting, for which he had considerable talent, and as the Depression deepened, reluctantly took over the family business, Mark Cross, the Fifth Avenue leather goods emporium. Villa America was sold. Sara traveled abroad, did volunteer work at a Harlem day care center and tried unsuccessfully to adopt two young brothers enrolled there...
...part, Metropolitan does not believe that people who adopt the new guidelines will die younger. And some doctors see a bright side to the standards. "Fighting Mother Nature is getting to be a serious problem," says Dr. George Blackburn, a renowned nutrition expert at Harvard. "I have a hospital full of anorectics." He advises people who are only a few pounds away from their goals to "relax, adjust to the new range and start having fun. There's no reason to be a size 6 or 8 when a size 10, or even...
GIVEN THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS, what posture should the West adopt' Goldman does not attempt to respond to this query, but his work helps to indicate the most logical answers. Some Western policy makers would have the United States "out arms race" the Soviets Given our relative economic strength, the argument goes, it is only a matter of time before the USSR gives in Proponents of this game of geopolitical chicken ignore of course the vast waste of resources and danger inherent in nuclear weapons. More important, as Goldman's book suggests, the Soviets seem more likely in the long...