Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a "pure-and-simple get-acquainted session is not the way to go." But the Secretary declined to name specific issues that might be on the agenda for a Reagan-Gorbachev conference. Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a former National Security Council member, speculated that a summit might result in "a broad declaration of principles" that could advance the current arms negotiations in Geneva. In 1972, Nixon and Brezhnev signed such an agreement calling for the peaceful coexistence of the superpowers. Experts doubt that the initial summit would deal with such volatile areas as the Middle East, South Africa or Central America...
Farley's work is in a field of research known as arousal studies. A major assumption of researchers is that a broad curve traces the susceptibility to stimulation in the general population: at one end of the spectrum are those who need excitation; at the other end are people who feel so overwhelmed by the normal stimulation of everyday life that they devote themselves to avoiding any further stress, risk or adventure. This avoidance group would include those who are comfortable with routine, and perhaps agoraphobics. Farley thinks schizophrenics and the autistic might belong in the non-T category...
...Administration's plan is similar to one proposed five weeks earlier in San Jose, Costa Rica, by a broad coalition of Nicaraguan opposition figures. This proposal also urged talks mediated by the church. It would have permitted President Daniel Ortega Saavedra to remain in office until new elections were held. The Sandinistas rejected the San Jose proposal. "We will not talk to the dogs, but to the dogs' owners," said one official, maintaining that the contras were controlled...
...Barcelona even appeared on a TV talk show. "These are the exceptions that get publicity," says a Carmelite in Rome. Nonetheless, such liberties would once have been unthinkable; to traditionalists like Mother John, prioress of a convent in Schenectady, N.Y., the language of the reformed charter "was so broad that it was not safeguarding the essential dimensions" of the Carmelite vocation...
Many ethically unsullied lawyers represent gangsters, of course. "The broad- brush effect of the term Mob lawyer is totally unfair," says James La Rossa, a prominent litigator who is counseling one of the nine men accused last month of being members of a national Mafia governing board. If no man is above the law, says Michael Rovell of Chicago's Jenner & Block, "the corollary is that no man should be below the law either. Somebody has to represent these people." But, acknowledges La Rossa, "there are lawyers who are climbing into bed with mobsters and doing things they shouldn...