Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have been the ones not responding." Earlier in the week, Chernenko had scoffed that Reagan "does not even want to discuss" a Soviet proposal to ban antisatellite weapons. The White House has maintained that such a treaty would be unverifiable, and that the U.S. must first catch up with Soviet antisatellite technology. But at his press conference Reagan said, "We don't have a flat no on that yet... We haven't slammed the door on that...
...acronym that substituted an R for reduction in place of the L for limitation in SALT came from Richard Pipes, a Harvard history professor and leading hawk who had joined the NSC staff. Pipes and Allen wanted to call the new talks SART. That did not catch on. White House Chief of Staff James Baker passed a note to Allen during a meeting: "How about 'Faster Arms Reduction Talks...
...killer reeled off the unlisted phone number of one Bulgarian; he recalled correctly that a second Bulgarian called his wife Rosy and tended to get breathless while walking; he knew of a wart on the left cheek of a third Bulgarian that is so small no photograph could catch...
Olympic officials are vowing to catch steroid users...
...minutes for the tugboat to reach us. Tankers are usually hit in the engine area, but because the Exocet missiles used by Iraq do not have a powerful explosive force, a ship is not likely to explode or sink rapidly. The big fear is that the oil will catch fire and trap everyone on a burning...