Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fishing agreement. In the latest talks the Soviets are more demanding: they are asking for shore privileges and airline landing rights as well as fishing access. Vanuatu, an 80-island nation about 1,000 miles east of Australia and 1,000 miles north of New Zealand, has recently sought closer relations with both Cuba and Libya...
...lesbian night. Saturday night is guys only and they are usually pretty strict about not letting in women. But this is definitely a place to rock. Man Ray has great music and even go-go dancers but the dance floor istoo crowded. Or if you want to rock closer tohome, try Jonathan Swift's (JFK street) fora melange of live bands. It's crowded, hot andvery loud, but there's a sect of Harvard studentswho swear...
...ideal freedom is a struggle toward the light, the U.S. is somewhat closer to it now--in economic freedoms, social freedoms and political freedoms --than it has ever been before. The obituary for the American frontier was pronounced by Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893. But in the American mind, the future itself is the wilderness to be settled. The U.S. still works frontiers, finding new channels, inventing new lives. By its explorations in the realms of individual and social freedoms, America is making what historians may eventually consider its greatest contribution to the modern...
Faced with long odds, an entrepreneur must know when to give up and when to adapt. Robert I. Earl owned an Elizabethan "theme restaurant" in Orlando called Shakespeare's of Church Street that provided an evening of light wassailing and big eats; last year he moved his operation closer to Disney World and changed the restaurant's name to King Henry's Feast. Why? "People who come to Orlando want to have fun," he told the International Drive Bulletin, "and too many people thought Shakespeare's was something serious and cultural...
...Arab side, the sense of betrayal is deep. The Arabs feel that Washington has moved closer to Israel than ever before, thus endangering U.S. strategic interests and abandoning claims of being an honest broker. The erosion of the American image of fair-mindedness, says a high-ranking Egyptian official, risks "the destruction of goodwill accumulated over many years." Secondly, though they understand the U.S. reaction to terrorism, the Arabs are shocked that the U.S. appears to blame the outbreak on the entire Arab world. Says Ashraf Ghorbal, a former Egyptian Ambassador to Washington: "Terrorism has become the lens through which...