Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summit is desirable, but the swap was deplorable," said Congressman Stephen Solarz (D-N.Y.). He's right. Effective arms control agreements are essential, but to achieve them there needs to be some basic level of cooperation, trust and understanding between the two governments. All three were undermined by the Soviet Union this month...
...Labor's call for unilateral disarmament. Social Democratic Leader David Owen said he was shocked by the vote, which he called a "very serious blow." Steel admitted that the outcome of the vote was nothing less than a "breathtaking misjudgment." With the two parties split on such a basic electoral issue, some observers doubted that they could continue to march under the same alliance banner...
...Xuling enjoys a right that is basic in the capitalist world but is still a rarity in China. The 21-year-old spindle operator is free to quit her job at the No. 10 cotton mill in the northeastern coastal city of Qingdao. Reason: she has a five-year labor contract with the government that allows her to seek work elsewhere when the agreement expires...
...that the basic balance of forces sustaining the country seems to have been abandoned by the American family, which is a naturally closer community and potentially a happier one. The consequences of excessive family freedom need not be as dramatic as in the Levin killing. Little murders are committed daily in homes where Mom and Dad sit planted in front of pieces of paper or The Cosby Show, while the children lie still as dolls on their beds and gaze at ceiling fixtures, like stations in a dream. See how free everybody is. The only things missing are the essentials...
...relationship between Mick and Susan, which becomes predictably romantic as he snatches her out of the jaws of--you guessed it--a giant crocodile. She is intrigued by his indifference to the problems of the world, and, after two days, she has acquired an appreciation for the basic, natural life of the outback, as well as an unlikely boyfriend...