Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dramatizing that point, Reagan announced on Saturday that his wife Nancy would go to Mexico City for a brief visit this week "to express the support of the American people to our courageous friends in Mexico...
Chayes was sharply critical of the U.S. decision to ignore the World Court trial. "They accuse Nicaragua of propaganda [in filing the case], but while we were arguing legality in a court of law, they released a 150-page brief [to the press, defending U.S. claims of Nicaraguan support for the El Salvador rebels]. It was the U.S. that was trying its case in the newspapers...
Before the Cantabs got their feet into gear Saturday, however, they suffered a brief--but potentially disastrous--spell of lethargy...
Although it has been rather tiring, sticky and unpleasant working on a lawn crew, or on an assembly line, or even in a warehouse, these brief but terrifying glimpses of the real world have also been educational. The first thing I learn each summer is that I hate to work, and I am absolutely incompetent when...
...since it reinforced outmoded taboos against nudity. So he walks by again, this time taking in the bare breasts as an incidental feature in the general landscape. But that was wrong too, he concludes, because it denied the woman her humanity. A third try proves equally unsatisfactory, since his brief glance at the exposed bosom strikes him, in retrospect, as dismissive and paternalistic. It is during his fourth approach that the sunbather gets up and runs away...