Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though there is no shortage of unresolved business from prior attempts at arms control, the Geneva negotiations seem certain to be dominated by a major new issue, one that could profoundly alter the nature of the arms race. That issue is Star Wars, Ronald Reagan's cherished plan to render offensive nuclear missiles "impotent and obsolete" by constructing a defensive shield based in outer space. Officially termed the Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars would employ a variety of still emerging technologies, including laser beams and high-energy particles, to shoot down attacking warheads before they reach their targets...
Nonetheless, the question of providing the guerrillas with the means to continue their struggle may soon become critical. In Washington, the Reagan Administration showed little sign last week that it would alter its policy of sending only humanitarian assistance to the Kampucheans. Said a U.S. official: "Involving ourselves directly against the Vietnamese would introduce an East-West element into this, and perhaps ASEAN should take the lead...
...referendum: the House-by-House breakdown of results. Council members and Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the College for the House system, are quoted as saying they are afraid of letting freshmen know what each House thinks of the current preference-based selection system. "Anything that would alter students' choices in advance of a lottery would only cause more anxiety," Dingman says...
...alter the look of the most grandiose and intimidating pictorial ensemble in the history of Western art is not a light matter. One of the difficulties of the job was, so to speak, metaphysical. Quite a body of interpretation has been raised on the traditional grayness of the Sistine frescoes. For Michelangelo was primarily a sculptor. He himself said so, especially when complaining that he had been forced to paint the Sistine, instead of getting on with the tomb for his tyrannous, charismatic patron, Pope Julius II. "I've grown a goiter at this drudgery," a poem...
Those designated under the system number many thousands. They form the backbone of the status quo in the governmental and societal structure. They will permit no one to transform that society or alter its foreign or domestic policy in any way that may affect their perquisites. It is no small irony to know that this fossilized elite controls the nation that calls on other countries to renounce stability for revolution, to give up privilege for the blessings of proletarianism...