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...that treaty led the Senate last week to postpone ratification, but in Geneva last Thursday, Secretary Shultz and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze seemed to have cleared up the remaining points of ambiguity. There is still deep suspicion in the U.S. that the Soviets are sharpies who outnegotiate Americans and then cheat on whatever agreement is reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West No More Mr. Tough Guy? | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...China) have agreed to meet formally with the struggling cartel. This expanded group of oil exporters, which controls 57% of production outside the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, could try to boost prices by fashioning an agreement to limit output. While such a pact might fall apart if producers cheat on quotas, as they have so many times in the past, word of the proposed meetings, which are scheduled to begin April 23, sparked a rally in the oil markets. The price of West Texas Intermediate crude rose by almost 12% last week, closing at $18.35 per bbl., the highest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punch in The Eye | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...hockey team spoiled rousing 7-5 losses to Czechoslovakia and the U.S.S.R. with rancid asides. "If they hadn't got that lucky second goal," Coach Dave Peterson said of the Czechs, "they might have tanked it." And the Soviets, he muttered into ABC's open microphone, "had to cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Triumph . . . And Tragedy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

Pistone shows the Mafia as holding a disregard for human life that is terrifyingly amoral. As a wise guy, Pistone quotes Lefty as saying, "you can cheat, you can steal, you can kill people -- legitimately. You can do anything you want, and nobody can say anything about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strife And Death in the Family | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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