Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CONTRAS are stepping up the killing in Nicaragua, and they are doing it with our tax money. Of course, this is nothing new. They have been doing exactly that for five years now, and they are no closer to beating the Sandinistas than they were in 1982. Our frustrated contra policy has thus far only created more corpses, not better policy options...
...Quantico, Va., a number of Marines are enduring the rigors of a very different course that seems closer to Miss Manners than the halls of Montezuma: training to be diplomatic guards at a mock-up of an embassy called Marshall Hall. Social etiquette is the topic as a gunnery sergeant combines a lecture with a slide show. A photograph of a diplomatic reception is projected. "What kind of dress do we say they're wearing there?" asks the sergeant. "That's right. That's black tie." Laughter greets the next slide, showing a Marine presenting flowers to a young woman...
More, rather than less, openness in both the U.S. and Japan would also help. Japan's need to reinvest its surplus cash is one impetus driving the country ever closer to the U.S. Another is Washington's need for Japanese funds to finance the budget deficit. Notes Goldman Sachs' Hormats: "Japan and the U.S. are locked in an embrace from which there is no escape. It may create some discomfort, but there is no longer...
...what we have today -- a million millionaires clamoring for art, corporate art advisers breeding like Gucci-shod mice in every cranny from Tokyo to Stuttgart, the whole grotesque edifice of sanctimony, hype, greed and social mummery that has been raised above bones like his. How much closer he might have come, poor strange man, to an understanding of his own value...
...understand this, and have long since calculated that the darker the day, the more riotous the color of their offerings, the bigger the sale. But it was not until some years ago that flower shows began to move out ahead of the gardening season, nosing their exhibition dates ever closer to the shank of winter. Improvements on the technique of "forcing," or confusing plants into forgetting the clock, hastened the shift in opening dates. Now it is standard procedure to mount a floral production in the cold. It is also smart marketing...