Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, Uncle Reagan reveled in the adulation from the singing, bouquet-waving crowds. The President had come to Grenada for a 5-hour visit last week to commemorate the U.S. invasion that swept away the country's ultra-Marxist "revolutionary council" in October 1983. "I couldn't feel closer to anyone at this moment than I do to you," he told the cheering islanders who had been given a national holiday by the government of Prime Minister Herbert Blaize to jam the dusty cricket field at Queen's Park...
...failure of Hussein's initiative leaves behind lots of losers. The Reagan Administration is now without an ongoing peace strategy for the Middle East. Hussein is more vulnerable than ever to the Syrians and to his own Palestinian population. He will probably feel a need to seek closer ties with his old adversary Syrian President Hafez Assad. The breakdown in talks may precipitate a new round of violence by Palestinians, who see diplomacy failing once again to resolve their problems. And it vastly increases the likelihood that Peres will be obliged to exchange jobs in the fall with Foreign Minister...
...tried to discourage fellow union members from distributing the papers, the courts fined them a total of $70,000 and seized the assets of Dean's group. News International officials claim that 90% of the papers' usual press run is being met, though union leaders contend the figure is closer to 50%. "I feel like a man who has been on a life sentence and has just been freed," said Murdoch. "I feel wonderful...
...presidential commission continues its work, NASA's ambitious goal of launching 15 shuttle flights this year is bound to come under closer scrutiny. "There seems to have been a speedup policy at NASA," says Jerome Lederer, a former director of the space agency's office of manned flight safety, adding, "There are signs that complacency may have set in, and that is not good for safety." Insisted a NASA engineer: "We are being driven by a launch manifest, not hardware capability or concerns about anything else." NASA has in fact been pushing its contractors for faster delivery of shuttle components...
...HAVE A specific reason to fear institute control of the magazine. The institute always hoped that the Review would be a different kind of journal. Institute staff members often told me that they wanted a magazine that was closer in spirit to their conferences--in which well-known policy-makers would hold forth in print. They never appreciated that the primary function of the Review, at least in our eyes, was to provide undergraduates with a place where they could learn how to write an essay, to edit, to solicit subscriptions: where students could experience working on a political magazine...