Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate, in some respects, was as notable for what was not said as for what was. There was not a word about Grenada, invaded by American forces almost precisely a year earlier. And the only mention of the Middle East, apart from Lebanon, came when Reagan included it with Central America and "the Pacific Basin" in a list of areas of vital concern to the U.S. One reason, no doubt, is that the candidates do not have time to reel off all the answers they have rehearsed to the questions that no one asks; they concentrate on making what they...
There is not enough evidence to conclude, or even to speculate persuasively, that the Administration missed an opportunity to reach what would have been a very good agreement for the West...On the contrary, it is at least as plausible that the package deal would have come apart and been repudiated in Moscow, regardless of how Washington responded...
...Semiconductor Industry Association said they fell to $843 million in September. Nonetheless, the industry remains optimistic. Says Zieber: "We are entering a period of adjustment from the very strong market of the past six quarters into something less robust. But we don't expect things to fall apart, because we don't expect the economy to fall apart." Indeed, with the rebound still full of vigor, semiconductor makers are happy to let the chips fall where they...
...stop a takeover by Communist guerrillas. Washington is skeptical. "We have been set upon, and we intend to defend ourselves," Churchill writes angrily to Hopkins. "I consider we have a right to the President's support... It grieves me very much to see signs of our drifting apart at the time when unity becomes even more important, as danger recedes and faction arises." Roosevelt suavely answers that he is "a loyal friend and ally," then cites "the mounting adverse reaction of public opinion," and urges that Churchill let "the people.. . express themselves...
...Apart from this one surprise, the rest of the film is about as predictable as a Harvard football game. The bureaucrats at the loan agency are all depicted as lily-livered "college boys" in direct contrast to the wholesome farmers whose calling is to "feed the world." Indeed, the film's political innuendos become slightly more than that when the camera reveals a larger-than-life portrait of a grinning Ronald Reagan behind the desk of the FHA's manager...