Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talbott's treatment of the SS-20 continues his deceptive even-handedness. He first brands it as a weapon "designed to circumvent" the limits of SALT I, "a classic example of the Soviet penchant for playing as close as possible to the edge of what is permissible...but nonetheless upsetting the stability and predictability that arms control is meant to help achieve." And then he gives the central argument for deployment in the absence of an equitable agreement...
Student activism, says Dean of Student Archie C. Epps III "has never disappeared from American colleges," as some would believe. Rather, "in a year of presidential campaigning, party-related groups are quite active, and campaign work is quite classic." Issue-oriented groups which have sprung up over the past 10 years are "represented in the same number in the past," Epps adds...
...classic mistake was a shampoo test-marketed by Clairol called A Touch of Yogurt. As Robert McMath, chairman of Marketing Intelligence Service, a New York consulting group, points out, "People weren't interested in putting yogurt on their hair, despite the fact that it may be good for it. Maybe they should have called it A Touch of Glamour, with Yogurt...
...falsehoods a country disseminates by duping foreign news media. Such campaigns usually depend on a legitimate journalist's unwitting participation. Thus it is often all but impossible, even long after the fact, for a news organization to detect that it has been the victim of disinformation. One classic instance that took months to expose: the rash of stories planted among Western journal ists that the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was a fan of jazz and Western fiction and a closet liberal...
...most grownups remember them, baseball cards were icons of wholesomeness and tradition. The cardboard heroes flashed all-American smiles and nearly always posed hitting, pitching or fielding. But now a touch of flamboyance is stealing into the baseball-card business (estimated sales: $45 million). While most cards retain the classic style, a few of the new designs might be enough to make Cubs Announcer Harry Caray blurt his famous "Holy...