Word: advent
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Former Secretary of State HENRY KISSINGER at the University of South Carolina in Spartanburg: "We hear very often, with the advent of the new Soviet General Secretary, calls for a meeting between our President and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union. This reflects a profound American temptation to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry and that relations among nations are like relations among people. But the problem is not so simple. Tensions that have persisted for 40 years must have some objective causes, and unless we can remove those causes, no personal relationship can possibly deal...
Wilhelm says the advent of clerical, service, and government employee unions is a result of a recent production shift from the manufacturing to the service sector. "The traditional backbone of union membership has shifted," he says. "There's substantially less jobs in manufacturing today than there was 25 years...
...what extent has the advent of television increased the media's capacity to scrutinize and intrude on the lives of public servants...
...advent of the personal computer has made it simple for the Soviets to obtain many advanced microprocessors, memory chips and other computer parts. All an agent needs to do is walk into a retail computer store, buy a machine and sneak it to Moscow for dissection and analysis. That is one reason why Western governments have eased restrictions on personal computer exports...
...ancient days, before the advent of the Sorth of Bragadox, when Fragilis sang and Saxaquine of the Quenelux held sway, Arthur Dent awoke one morning in his modest home west of London to learn from a visiting extraterrestrial that the earth was about to be demolished. It had to make way for a hyperspace bypass. What happened next is too horrible to recount, but several hundred thousand inhabitants of the planet earth are familiar with the tale. That is a conservative estimate of the audience for Douglas Adams' 1979 luna tic masterpiece, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...