Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimated at somewhere between 60 days and eleven months. After that, it is widely assumed that Congress will become distracted by the 1986 elections. Reagan's ability to tackle the deficit, says one senior adviser, "is going to be determined by how successful he is coming out of the box...
Reagan was his own first act on Saturday, entering the hall to sustained applause and standing at attention in the presidential box as the national anthem was played by the 45-member Nelson Riddle orchestra. The gala's tone of red-blooded glitz was set by Country Singer Mac Davis' show opener, God Bless the U.S.A., complete with marching band and back-up vocals. At the request of ! Nancy Reagan, organizers added a touch of highbrow to the program by scheduling Mezzo Soprano Frederica Von Stade, who sang an aria from Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots...
After six days in jail, charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon, Goetz made bail with $50,000 of his own money. Stopping in at his cluttered downtown apartment, he asked a handyman to remove a WELCOME HOME BERNIE banner and a collection box for his defense fund that had been installed in the building's lobby by his fellow tenants. Pursued by several reporters and photographers, Goetz drove through the Holland Tunnel to a shopping center in Union...
...delayed while Federal Court Judge Abraham Sofaer worked out a highly unusual arrangement with the Israeli government to allow limited access to secret documents involved in the case. After its representatives had seen . some, but not all, of the relevant documents, TIME issued a correction regarding one sentence (see box). But TIME asserted that the substance of the paragraph was true and protested that it had been denied access to key testimony given to Israeli investigators that could confirm the story...
...arrived in the Swiss city, the negotiating climate seemed not much warmer than the temperature, which dropped so low (14 degrees F) that Gromyko said jokingly that he would "rather be in Siberia." Both sides came in talking so tough that U.S. journalists in the immense press corps (see box) were speculating about an outright collapse of the talks...