Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Melendez regrets that for all his success at Harvard, he has not been able to overcome his own insecurities. "I'm very uncomfortable at parties; I'm very awkward at dealing with people; I can't ask women out on dates for the most part--although I can ask people for votes and I can try to persuade people to think like I do," he says. "I'm not afraid of crowds and speaking to people. I'm afraid of small groups where I have to be myself rather than be an officer of the Undergraduate Council or a public...
...allied leaders were also upset. Reagan promised to take their views into account when the matter is discussed at another NSC meeting, perhaps this week. Abandoning SALT II would be a blow to the sputtering arms-control talks that resumed in Geneva last week. The timing could also be awkward: the Soviets are now hinting that they may agree to a Washington summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in December, just when the breach would occur...
...They broke off the engagement in October, but they were stuck together in one room for the rest of senior year," says Isselbacher. "They even started to date other people. Brian told me once that it was really awkward when he brought a date back home...
...mishap comes at an awkward time for Britain, where planners are eager to build a new generation of nuclear plants. While Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared last week, "The record of our own nuclear-power industry is absolutely superb," Chernobyl could force long delays in approval of the utilities. Once the disaster became known, environmental groups quickly called for demonstrations...
...older children, Joseph and Yekaterina, who were 22 and 17 when she left them in 1966, and her two grandchildren. She claimed that the Soviets directed the script for her return press conference. Said she: "They made me write texts in Russia, which they all approved. I felt very awkward. I wanted to say simply, 'I came to join my children...