Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Dole supported the resolution, he was not as pleased. He had held several meetings with Budget Director James Miller and top Senate Republicans to work out a package closer to Reagan's request. He conducted transpacific negotiations with Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who was traveling with the President in the Far East. At one point Dole waved a document he identified as a House budget proposal (it was actually a month-old working paper outlining one option). Declaring that the proposal recommended no major revenue increases, Dole called it a "smoking gun" because it proved that House Democrats...
...have measured the distance from the center of the Milky Way to the Earth for the first time. The group, including four Harvard researchers, determined that the Earth is about 7.1 kiloparsecs--or 23,000 light years--from the galaxy's center, which is about 30 percent closer than scientists previously assumed...
Students also say that the Signet's exclusive nature has pushed it closer into the realm of final clubs. "It's hard to defend the Signet against charges of elitism. We apply standards which are admittedly vague and which vary from election to election. Everyone who joins the Signet accepts this," Murphy says...
...seemed to have come to believe with Reagan that alternatives to force in dealing with Libya had simply failed. Last week she reminded her critics of Libya's continuing support of the terrorist gangs in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of other Libyan incidents much closer to home. Two years ago, London broke diplomatic relations with Tripoli after Constable Yvonne Fletcher was killed by gunfire from the Libyan "people's bureau...
...theatre the actors are coming to grips with the extra-large stage. The front row of seats has been removed to provide for an angled extension called a rake. Although the actors are closer to the audience on the rake, they also must take care not to be swamped in the hugeness of the spacial void. At the same time, the stage crew is learning to time the raising and lowering of the various set components, including three enormous palm trees. Special care is given to the scrim, or see-through cloth; it belongs to the American Repertory Theatre...