Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outcome and the assessment of the Pennsylvania drama. The Department of Energy had planned to ask congressional approval for the building of experimental repositories for nuclear waste, which remains radioactive for thousands of years. California and Wisconsin have in effect banned construction of new power plants until some better method of disposing of the waste can be found. Three Mile Island can only strengthen the hands of some Congressmen who have been insisting that licensing of new plants be halted unless a series of deadlines for progress on waste disposal are met, a move that could halt atomic power construction...
...White House they are counting heavily on what National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "the contagion of peace." If in these first shaky months, the new treaty takes hold and appears to be working for both nations, they may relax and be even more giving to ward each other. Better yet, the other Arab nations may, how ever reluctantly, decide to join the process. There is no question that Jimmy Carter's hand will be required from time to time; though not, he hopes, in the manner of Camp David or for shuttle diplomacy. But in extremis, even those...
...considerably more serious development, in Washington's view, was Viet Nam's continuing troop buildup in its now devastated northern regions, as if in preparation for further fighting. Hanoi has already moved several of its better divisions out of Cambodia to the north. According to Agence France-Presse Correspondent Jean Thoraval, who recently visited Viet Nam's northern frontier, thousands of militiamen and soldiers have taken up positions in the lush valleys and mountains adjoining the 735-mile-long border with China. Thoraval said Vietnamese officials openly predict a resumption of fighting within six months...
...couple's supposedly sincere romance is under mined. There are a few funny peripheral moments, especially those that focus on the mores of video dating, but there are also stale gags about wayward cars and coitus interruptus. In this context, Altman's allusions to his better films are particularly depressing. Like Nashville, A Perfect Couple features a climactic death, weird minor characters who traipse mysteriously through the action, as well as a lengthy musical score, sung by Sheila's rock group. There are even moments when Heflin starts to look like Shelley Duvall. But this time Altman...
...expected under Greenfield, who describes herself as a "moderate centrist liberal," similar to her predecessor in ideology. "She's rather conservative on fiscal issues but not on human rights," says Post Reporter Myra MacPherson, a good friend. Enthuses George Will, the paper's conservative columnist: "She has better judgment than anyone I've known in Washington...