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Word: braked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vieturn to detente? A nuclear freeze? Some kind of brake on the arms race? Hardly. The latest love in between? Washington and Moscow has about the same chance of breaking into open arms control as did the four years of deep freeze that characterized relations during the first term of the Reagan Administration: nil. All the soothing words enunciated in last week's rush to rapprochement cannot obfuscate the immense underlying obstacles to any meaningful agreement given the current cast of characters in the White House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arms (Out of) Control | 11/29/1984 | See Source »

...election, brought together about 30 Nicaraguan political parties, social and labor organizations, from conservative to extreme left. But those attending the talks have only a consulting role. National Directorate Member Carlos Núñez Téllez declares that giving authority to the group would constitute "putting a brake on the powers of the state." -By George Russell. Reported by June Erlick and Janice C. Simpson/Managua

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: First Trip to the Polls | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...roadblocks and rivalries brake Europe in the high-technology field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Back in a Critical Race | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

Notice: Car-pool moms entered in the U-Haul Mother-of-the-Year brake-off should complete the following literary quiz. Answers must be written in eyebrow pencil, and nuttiness counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...forms a perfect mate with a gadget to be carried by Nelson that looks like a fat belly button. NASA calls that protrusion TPAD (for trunnion pin attachment device). Nelson will attach the TPAD to the pin and then fire some of the MMU'S thrusters to brake Solar Max's rotation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Tinkering with Solar Max | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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