Word: bona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People argue that it gives students a feeling of security to have bona fide police officers running the service. But police officers don't drive the cars...
Ironically, that is exactly what he did in applying perestroika to foreign affairs. Gorbachev knew where he wanted to go and how to get there. He moved first to improve U.S.-Soviet relations, which he considered pivotal. To prove his bona fides, he withdrew Soviet troops from Afghanistan and supported regional settlements in Africa and Latin America. He followed up by renouncing intervention in the affairs of Eastern Europe. His steady march toward nuclear-arms reduction often caught the U.S. off guard and vastly impressed Western Europe. His sure hand on foreign policy has been so convincing that some American...
...uniformly agree that growth during the next year will be very slow, but are divided about whether the U.S. will fall into a recession. The optimists forecast a "soft landing," characterized by minimal growth but no severe dislocation; the pessimists believe the long-running expansion is due for a bona fide recession, with widespread bankruptcies, loan defaults and layoffs...
...physical weakness has not prevented women from becoming bona fide chefs, what about their alleged lack of creativity? Judging by the menus of prominent women chefs around the U.S., pure tradition has gone the way of hand-rolled dough. For though most draw upon certain ethnic and regional influences, all feature the new American cooking, with its free association of international dishes and ingredients and its basically French cooking techniques. Whether such food is prepared by men or women, it is most successful when the surprise of novelty is tempered by a sense of familiarity, a feeling that though...
...story created a furor in Israel and markedly increased the hostility toward foreign journalists in the West Bank. After leaving one village last month, Baltimore Sun reporter Robert Ruby was pelted with rocks. To identify themselves as bona fide journalists, some foreign correspondents began ! carrying press cards issued by the Jerusalem-based Arab Journalists Association. "I have to help journalists get the truth and protect them from getting into trouble," says A.J.A. director Radwan Abu-Ayyash...