Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sexually accosted a Peace Corps volunteer during a fact-finding mission to Zaire last March, asked other embassies that have played host to Savage about his activities. Two congressional committees are now investigating the allegations. Considering the outcome of his foreign forays, Savage might want to consider sticking closer to home...
...country to integration between the two. You have more people going from Mexico to the U.S., and you get a Simpson-Rodino ((immigration)) law. You have more drugs going to the U.S., and you get ditches. The limits are the fears and the objective interests in both countries against closer ties with each other. They exist on both sides...
...approaching its last port of call. Having made historic flybys of Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1986, it is poised for an Aug. 24 rendezvous with Neptune, the most distant of the giant planets. (It will not encounter Pluto, whose bizarre orbit now places it closer to the sun than Neptune is.) Voyager's aging cameras and electronic sensors are somewhat impaired, and the probe is so distant that its signals take four hours to travel to earth. Still, scientists expect mounds of fresh data and some 8,000 photographic images, entirely new information about...
...Reagan, but scheduling that first one in this environment of high expectations is ticklish. Gorbachev and his Polish and Hungarian cohorts cannot yet be made members of the open-market club, though they have such yearnings. But Bush hopes that there may be some way to bring the Communists closer to provisional entry into the free-market system. Bush, like most modern Presidents, is captivated by confronting the problem and devising solutions. The hunch here is that in the next three or four months, Bush and Gorbachev will meet and move their separate worlds a bit closer...
Bush's relationship with the somber, shaded Jaruzelski is probably as open as that with reformer Walesa. "I told Jaruzelski that he seemed closer to Gorbachev than any of the other leaders," Bush related. "Jaruzelski smiled and said that was probably so. He told me that he had just talked to Gorbachev before our meeting. Jaruzelski now is more willing to speak out, has more confidence to accept different opinions...