Word: bows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teas, receptions. Such occasions require a deep well of small talk and unwavering poise. Last month, at a dinner in honor of Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi (chicken breast Sandeman, poached salmon, radicchio salad and glazed pear), Nancy Reagan sat dutifully on the visitor's left--and when Lusinchi's bow tie slid askew, she smiled, reached over, and refastened the clip-on without skipping a beat...
...pivotal factor in the pullout decision may have been Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, UNESCO'S Senegalese director-general, whose autocratic style made negotiation difficult. In a recent meeting in Paris with Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO, M'Bow seemingly accused Gerard of racism, telling her that she could not treat him as she was accustomed to treating Americans "who come from the same continent...
...Newell's announcement, the Administration left open the possibility of rapprochement, saying that the U.S. would rejoin the 160-nation group "when UNESCO returns to its original purposes and principles." As a practical matter, that may not be until 1987, when a successor to the combative M'Bow is chosen. Newell said, however, that the U.S. will establish an "observer mission" in Paris to monitor UNESCO activities...
...some of the interactions between the sun and the earth. The release is part of a study of the magnetosphere, the powerful magnetic bubble that surrounds the earth; of the solar wind, the stream of supersonic particles that blows from the sun out to the planets; and of the bow-shock region, which lies between them. Aware of the comet's seasonal significance, NASA, one of the mission's main participants, has only too happily dubbed the performance the "Christmas comet." Sadly, the spectacle will be visible only to those living roughly west of St. Louis to Hawaii...
...under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take a firmer stand against UNESCO's financial mismanagement and anti-Western bias. Its director-general, Senegal's Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, has annoyed the U.S. and Britain by, among other things, promoting a plan under which UNESCO would set standards for international news reporting. Western news organizations believe that the scheme would lead to increased state control of the press...