Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nuclear weapons are the central fact of the U.S.-Soviet relationship. But incipient entente, although modest, is also showing up elsewhere. Mikhail Gorbachev, heir apparent to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, will visit Britain for a week in December (see box). As Shultz arrives in Geneva in January, a U.S. Commerce official will be in Moscow for quieter talks about how to expand U.S.-Soviet trade. This week Soviet Minister of Agriculture Valentin Mesyats will begin a twelve-day tour of the American heartland; aside from Gromyko, no Soviet minister has visited the U.S. since 1979. Last week Pop Singer John...
...doubt White House-reaction to recommendations they might make when Reagan returns this week. Some were obviously prompted by a sweeping study prepared by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that takes credit for many of the initiatives launched in Reagan's first term (see box). Among the programs getting the most scrutiny from budget cutters...
...filled with "hard, Jewish and (arguably) female faces" and called Allred a "slick butch lawyeress." Allred did what came naturally, slapping him with a $10 million libel suit. At a subsequent press conference called by Schmitz to discuss Middle East tensions, she showed up to present him with a box of frogs. Cried Allred: "A plague on the house of Schmitz...
...gathering spot, to a video-game factory in Coarsegold, Calif. Through it all he discerns a common thread: the unspoken assumption among crack computer programmers and engineers that they could straighten out the world by dint of their intelligence if they could only get their hands on the control box...
...computer nerds. By day, they met for discussions and debates that included a face-off between Bonn Parker, a computer-crime expert, and John Draper, the legendary "Cap'n Crunch," who developed a system for making free phone calls by using the toy whistle from a breakfast-cereal box to imitate the tone used by AT&T for long-distance calls. At night the hackers clustered around a dazzling array of computer hardware that beeped and glowed until 4 o'clock each morning...