Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they set up Daniloff merely in retaliation for the arrest in New York of Soviet U.N. worker Gennadi Zakharov--hoping they could then work out a quiet, straight-forward swap for their spy? Or did they desire all along that the arrest cloud superpower relations and force a U.S. government under pressure to move toward an arms-control agreement to make concessions it would not otherwise make...
...last day of the clinic we all ride in a lush pasture not far from where a billowing cloud on the Grand Teton looks like a pillar of smoke. We make mistakes. My roan colt gets scared because I'm scared, and he tries to run off. Les' chestnut mare slips and falls on her because Les has been too demanding. Chuck's mule and Elaine's colt pull away because they've been too imprecise, too lenient. "The horse is a mirror. When I see your horse, I see you too," Ray reminds...
...much larger cloud lingering over the economy is the federal budget deficit, which is expected to hit a record $210 billion or more this year. Government borrowing has soaked up a large portion of available savings and thus kept interest rates higher than they otherwise would have been. Some members of Congress fear that a major reduction in Government spending could be a blow to the fragile economy. But TIME's board members concluded that the economy is strong enough to withstand a determined attack on the budget deficit...
Still, Reagan insisted on confining the 45-minute discussion to the Daniloff case, which Shultz pronounced a "cloud hanging over" any chance for progress between the two nations. Although neither side budged on the Daniloff issue, Shultz and his counterpart were nevertheless surprisingly upbeat about the results of their two-day talks. "Quite a few items that seemed insoluble a year ago are now working themselves out," Shultz said after the meetings ended Saturday. He cited strategic arms and "especially" intermediate-range missiles based in Europe as the most promising areas for agreement. For his part, Shevardnadze implied that...
Tear gas too. On opening night, just as the dancers were starting a coy mating dance called Summer, the sellout audience at the Metropolitan Opera House was routed by a cloud of noxious gas that emptied the 4,000-seat auditorium and forced cancellation of the performance. (The radical Jewish Defense League at first claimed and then denied responsibility.) Next evening, amid beefed-up security, the show went off without a hitch...