Word: buttons
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Where will the centrifugal disintegration end? Will the Crimea separate itself the way The Nose did in Gogol's story? Will the nuclear button be divided too? Instead of just one -- four, or a whole keyboard? And then what about nuclear civil...
After Gorbachev handed over custody of the nuclear arsenal and the codes that permit strategic missiles to be launched, Yeltsin declared himself sole inheritor of "the button," as he called the code box. "There will be only one button," he said. "The other republics are not going to have any other buttons." Even so, he said, he had agreed with the Presidents of the other three republics where the missiles are still located that any decision to use them would have to be made unanimously by the four...
Boris Yeltsin, the comeback kid of Russian politics, deftly toppled the Kremlin and inherited the nuclear button . . . The Teamsters said goodbye to the Mafia. Against all odds, the most corrupt U.S. labor union elected an underdog reformer as president -- Watch out, wiseguys . . . Sam Skinner moved up from Transportation Secretary to displace arrogant-to-the-end John Sununu. Skinner was just what George Bush needed -- a crisis manager who flies coach class . . . Wal-Mart isn't just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock...
...Absolutely, absolutely. Everything will remain as it has always been. Any alarming speculation, here or abroad, about who will have his finger on the button is groundless...
Mario Cuomo had a choice when he addressed an audience of Miami Jews on Dec. 5. He could score with some cheap political rhetoric, or he could tell the complicated, nuance-laden truth. Cuomo chose the former. In a speech that pushed every pro-Israel button known to man, New York's Governor singled out the Arab states' economic boycott of Israel for special condemnation. The applause increased when Cuomo identified Japan as a particularly egregious and cowardly collaborator. "I was in Japan ((in October)), talking every day about the Arab boycott," said Cuomo. "You know what a difference...