Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest ever hosted outside the U.S. It was also the first major Western banquet not held in an embassy or a government hall. During his 1975 state visit, for example President Gerald Ford gave a Chinese banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. The Reagans instead chose the newly completed Great Wall Hotel. A 1,007-room glass-and-steel high-rise jointly built by Chinese and American developers, the hotel is a symbol of China's growing Western ties and its quest for modernization...
...hotel was in charge of buying, preparing and serving the food, but the Reagans chose the menu. In another untraditional move, they decided to treat their guests to a "typically American" meal: turkey and all the trimmings. White House advance teams held three full-scale tasting sessions, sending snapshots of the food and formal place settings back to Nancy Reagan for approval...
Second, regarding the question and answer controversy, the majority of non BLSA/TWC students left the meeting after Kenyatta chose not to call on any one of 20 to 30 white hands raised, while at the same time not one BLSA/TWC student was raising his hand. After scanning the entire audience, Kenyatta turned to a Black student who did not have his hand raised, and asked him "Didn't you have your hand up before?" At that point, it became obvious that Kenyatta would not accept questions from the HJLSA or its supporters, and that the forum would not be conductive...
When TIME last chose the ten best U.S. dailies, in 1974, it seemed a buoyant era for newspapers: by publishing the Pentagon papers and exposing the Watergate scandal, they had recaptured the role as journalism's leader, which TV had assumed during the Viet Nam War. They had shown a new zeal for investigating local corruption. And they had begun to adopt technologies to achieve crisp graphics and photos; a growing number were using color...
...under arrest have the right to ignore and walk away from police who want to question them. That being so, Rehnquist continued, the factory workers "could have had no reasonable fear that they would be detained" if they refused to answer the questions of the INS agents or chose to leave the factory while the raids were going on. William Brennan, joined by Thurgood Marshall, wrote in dissent that the decision had a "studied air of unreality," since the INS raids were "of sufficient size and force to overbear the will of any reasonable person...