Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1880s. In Alta, Utah, more than 20 ft. fell during December alone, exceeding the previous record by 5 ft. "I've never seen a winter this hard on deer," says Joe Gerrans, a Colorado wildlife supervisor. The snows came unusually early, so the herds had only a brief time for winter foraging. Now much of the sagebrush and other shrubs is covered by a layer of snow so thick and crusty that the hungry animals are roaming toward settled areas for food. They often wander plowed roads and railroad tracks: 400 antelope were struck and killed by trains...
...With the largest foreign debt in the Third World (estimated at $93 billion), inflation galloping at an estimated annual rate of 215%, and a third consecutive year of negative economic growth in 1983, Brazil (pop. about 131 million) is in acute social pain. Foreign bankers granted the country a brief breathing space two weeks ago with a $6.5 billion "jumbo" loan. But the U.S. Commerce Department had earlier added to Brazil's burden by ruling that steel exports to the U.S., which totaled $1.3 billion last year, were unfairly subsidized and thus subject to penalty duties. Further economic blows...
...think I've yet had an opportunity to let this fully sink in," Spence began, following a brief introduction from President Bok. "It certainly is the most exciting thing that has happened to me in my professional life...
...gesture or a light remark, will suddenly seem to win the exchange. The impressionism of television is what makes it so powerful and unaccountable. Robert M. Teeter, who polls for Republicans, once carried out an experiment with two groups of ten and twelve people. He showed them a brief bit of videotape of politicians they did not know. The sound was off; the candidate was seen campaigning, shaking hands. Viewers were then asked to judge whether they found the candidates honest, caring, experienced and qualified. Teeter's "somewhat surprising finding," he told David Burnham of the New York Times...
...producers of the film deserve at least come credit for building their story on a plausible series of events. They can also hardly be blamed for relegating the truly important questions of our nuclear age to brief snatches of radio broadcasts. The film merely mirrored the current misplaced emphasis of the Western press and some of the American people concerning the overall superpower balance and the suspended talks in Geneva and Vienna...