Word: clung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on many levels and varying issues. But Gromyko had made it clear in his harshly worded speech to the U.N. Thursday that Moscow was looking for U.S. concessions before resuming formal bargaining on arms control or, indeed, almost anything else. He clung to that position consistently, though a bit less polemically, in private meetings with Shultz and Reagan's Democratic challenger, Walter Mondale...
Throughout the talks, Moscow clung to a proposal to establish ceilings on strategic "launchers" (missile silos, submarine missile-launching tubes, intercontinental bombers) lower than those set by the SALT II treaty. The U.S. complained that the Kremlin would retain a long lead in monster land-based missiles. The Reagan Administration regards these as the most "destabilizing" and dangerous nuclear weapons because they could deliver a devastating first strike. Unlike the INF talks, the START negotiations were never formally ended. But after the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and Tomahawk missiles in Europe began, the Soviets contended that they would have...
...Florida's officers and employees have clung to the hope that the Miami-based carrier would fly again ever since it declared bankruptcy last July. But Air Florida will probably never return to the air. Last week the company announced a tentative plan to merge into Chicago-based Midway Airlines ( estimated 1984 revenues: $140 million...
...Price: as low as $265. Mobility was suddenly within reach of the average family, and an egalitarian society was no longer some impossible ideal. Automobile ownership, reported Robert and Helen Lynd in Middletown, soon became "an accepted essential of normal living." Even in the abyss of the Depression, families clung to their cars as the American emblem of self-respect...
Will it help to explain that his nickname was Spider? Spider Nissen. Henry Nissen, a.k.a. Hank Nissen, a.k.a. Spider Nissen and the last clung to him like a bad smell. He had a touch of the hyena for that matter--the same we-eat-tainted-meat-together intimacy that burns out of a hyena's eyes behind the bars of his cage. So Spider Nissen would look at me and give a giggle as if we had both had a girl together, and each took turns sitting on her head...