Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ISRAEL'S UNITY government falters at the brink of collapse, those on both sides of the political fence have eagerly rushed in to give it the final shove over the edge--into a chasm of national economic disaster and minority rule...
...Mississippi for basic training in 1943. He faces authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation. He methodically loses his virginity with a prostitute (Randall Edwards), less for pleasure than as a rite of passage, then rediscovers his innocence in the chaste embrace of a Catholic schoolgirl. He confronts the chasm between his diary jottings and literature. In perhaps his least anticipated experience, he meets an age mate smarter than he is, not only in literary learning but in his grasp of human nature...
...negotiating team arrived in Geneva aboard a military jet early Saturday, and in brief arrival remarks, Kampelman pledged that Washington is ready to "help build a bridge" across the arms chasm. Observers expect the & first meetings in the new round of arms negotiations to last several weeks, followed by several more of recess for home consultations in Washington and Moscow. Few observers dared to speculate much beyond that. Predicted Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt: "Geneva is really going to test the patience of the American people." Reagan sounded the same cautionary note, but then, typically, the Gipper found...
Between conflagrations, however, Mexico is largely ignored by official America. Despite our obvious strategic concern with the nation that shares our southern border, few Americans have taken an interest in Mexico. Perhaps this is a reflection of the cultural chasm that separates our two nations. In terms of our national heritages, values and beliefs, Alan Riding writes. "Probably nowhere in the world do two countries as different as Mexico and the United States live side by side...
There are some early signs that the Democrats' strategy of broadening the gender gap into a chasm may be effective. In Virginia, after Ferraro's selection, women workers in day care centers began asking every parent to register and vote. In Alabama, Mondale campaign headquarters logged within hours 65 calls from women volunteers. But how widespread will this phenomenon be, how long will it last and to what ex- tent might it be offset by a backlash among men and more traditionalist women...