Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closer we got to the moon during the Apollo missions, the more the public thought that anything was possible even though we weren't really landing on the moon," he says. "With AIDS, every step is just as exciting, though not as useful as the final answer...
...candidate's approval of drafts. Last Friday's address, for instance, was subcontracted to a private company. Meanwhile, Dole's economic advisers remain deeply split over how far Dole should go on trade. Some, like Robert Lighthizer, want to take a tough line with Japan and China; others, with closer ties to the ceos who have helped fund the Dole campaign, want the candidate to push for free-trade agreements. Confusion over timing, as well as bickering among foreign-policy advisers, prompted the cancellation two weeks ago of a diplomatic speech at the Richard Nixon library and led Dole...
...targets just below the national media radar. Even while the Christian right's media-savvy national leaders are downplaying antigay initiatives, its local soldiers are working to raise the issue that America's young people are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life. By pitching the attack closer to home, where parental fears are more easily aroused, conservatives are extending their influence while escaping the tough scrutiny that has greeted their more visible campaign in statehouses to ban same-sex marriages. At the local level, the accent is on keeping homosexuality out of the curriculum and the classroom...
There is certainly something to be said about creating a forum of cultural appreciation for different ethnic groups. And some of these organizations do just this. Dinners, dances and gatherings held by the various clubs do bring members closer together and do promote an overall appreciation of the culture. This should not be denied. But what Santini seems to be looking for is club that will provide an arena for political movement--political activity similar (maybe less violent) than the Young Lords Organization which started in New York in 1969. This is ridiculous. To place this kind of political pressure...
...French card by giving lucrative airplane deals a couple of weeks ago, China is dangling trade and other possible relations with Russia as a way of telling Washington that it is not the only game in town." For Russia, the meeting is part of a strategy to cultivate closer ties in Asia. "Russia is in dire economic straits and is looking at other markets for trade," FlorCruz says. "China is an attractive market. Russia has a lot to offer China in terms of aircraft, military, nuclear and satellite technology." During Yeltsin's visit, the two countries are expected to sign...