Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given the often prickly state of U.S.Canadian relations during the past decade, the Reagan Administration has been careful to appear evenhanded about the race. Mulroney may be somewhat closer to Reagan on defense and economic issues, but Turner has good friends in Washington, most notably U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who was president of Bechtel Corp. when Turner was a director of Bechtel Canada Ltd. After Reagan's highly publicized squabbles with Trudeau, the prevailing feeling in the Administration seems to be that "whoever wins, we win." U.S. officials contend that despite disputes over trade barriers, U.S. investment...
...Americans opened the Games against the Chinese, who lost 97-49 and seemed baffled by American-style play; when Ewing made a leaping block of a shot, China's Haibo Wang bolted as if he had glimpsed an evil spirit. Later games were closer, but only the West Germans, who had four present or former U.S. collegians on the team, and the Canadians, who had three, lost by fewer than 30 points...
...Closer to earth and water, however, there was plenty of spectacular diving competition at the Games. Since 1980, China has been sending powerful men's and women's diving teams, perhaps the best in the world, to international meets. They specialize in acrobatics and "ripped" entries -eerily splashless plunges that make a sound like ripping cloth, in which the hands and arms drill a hole in the water for the body to follow. At first the American women, traditionally the world's best, could not match these elegant entries. They learned soon enough, but the Chinese kept...
...ambiguity. Although Hopper and Stipe do create deceptive verbal tricks, they do not slur and clip their vocals to the extent that Michael Stipe does. REM presents the listener with an insoluable puzzle; with each new listening one continually hears new words and new meanings. Oh-Ok, however, repays closer listening with a better understanding. So, in "Such 'n' Such," what may at first sound like "You are really neat," eventually becomes "Do I really need this?"; and this fits in with the song's theme of growing insanity...
...deal that could have been made only in the political otherworld of the two Germanys: deutsche marks in exchange for closer ties between people. The government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week approved backing for a private bank loan of more than $330 million to East Germany, the second time in two years that Bonn has guaranteed such a deal. In the language of diplomacy, the loan carried no conditions. But in the world of Realpolitik there were clear requirements, and it came as no surprise when the West German government also announced that East Germany will ease...