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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EVEN conspiracy theorists agree that whatever the government may have done clumsily, or done wrong, they chose a good scapegoat when they picked on Moon...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: Moon's Financial Rise and Fall | 10/11/1984 | See Source »

...fill five vacancies on the court. By the time he died in 1945 he had appointed eight Supreme Court Justices, more than any other President since George Washington. F.D.R. wanted Justices who would show judicial restraint, who would defer to the authority of the Federal Government. The men he chose did show restraint, but only on economic matters. Two of his appointees, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, went on to lead a revolution in individual rights that culminated in the activist Warren Court era of the 1960s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R.'s Scheme | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...complaining that the run "interfered with the normal life of the city." The Soviets asked the joggers to confine their activity to parks and to official sporting facilities. Clint Halloran, 43, a trim Australian attaché who serves as Hash Master, the elected head of the in formal club, chose not to regard the Soviet demand as a worsening of East-West relations. In compliance with the Soviets' request, the runs have been rescheduled for nonrush hours and moved to various parks and suburbs, like the area around the U.S. embassy dacha, ten miles from the Kremlin. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Red Threat, No Sweat | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

Although each delegation had a computer and software available, they made very little use of them. Instead, they chose to negotiate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Brings Peace Theorists to Cambridge | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...intramural dispute came to a head last week at a meeting of the National Security Planning Group, an informal panel of top advisers that deliberates with the President on major foreign policy and national security questions. After hearing the arguments from both sides, Reagan chose to steer a center course, but one that will leave him with little leeway to make new proposals for arms control. He decided against offering any specifics to the Soviets at this time, which State Department moderates had been advocating as a way of drawing the Kremlin back to the bargaining table. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gromyko Comes Calling | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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