Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of the debate is Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, who swept into office in 1982 partly on the strength of his call for a referendum on NATO, which Spain had joined only a few months before in an effort to move closer to the rest of Europe and assure the safety of its fragile democracy. The Socialist campaign took advantage of some strong anti- American feeling, which is a legacy of U.S. backing for General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. The U.S. has had military bases in Spain since...
Though still trailing, Gonzalez and his supporters worked extremely hard to make the vote closer than expected with a clever campaign in which they attempted to turn any anti-Americanism on its head. "Isn't it better to discuss our defense with our European partners instead of just with the Americans?" asked Gonzalez. In an effort to increase the size of the yes vote, the referendum promises, in addition, that nuclear weapons would continue to be prohibited on Spanish soil and the number of authorized U.S. troops in Spain would be reduced from its current number...
...understanding of what they both did best that brought Phil and Don together again, their gifts strengthened, renewed. It was all, finally, about harmony. "Don and I are infamous for our split," says Phil, "but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love." The harmony, it became clear, had been disrupted but never broken. At the Albert Hall reunion concert, after those painful years, Don led into the wrong song for the encore, an old Jimmy Reed tune called Baby What You Want...
...Suisei, designed to study the huge hydrogen gas cloud surrounding Halley's, was targeted to fly by the comet at a distance of almost 100,000 miles. Sakigake, studying the solar wind so that scientists can determine the wind's effect on the comet's tail, would not come closer than 4.4 million miles from the nucleus...
...their relationship, despite huge jumps in time between scenes--as much as 10 years in one leap--never goes anywhere until the very end of the play's two hours. Jason never gets any closer to recognizing Phoebe's real emotions towards him. In turn, she never comes any closer to telling Jason that she loves him. As a result, while the actors are able to maintain the quality of their performances, the play seems to stagnate in the middle of the second...