Word: companion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since last month three amnesty bills have been introduced in the Senate, one of which has a companion measure in the House. Last week the idea got a boost from Ronald Reagan, who told reporters that an amnesty "sounds like a way to maybe end a situation in which we are losing billions of dollars from people who are not paying their just share...
...picked up the phone to resolve their own crisis. "It was like I'd talked to him yesterday," Phil says. They had lunch, got drunk, and within ten months were singing at their reunion concert in London. There was a subsequent record of the concert as well as a companion television special. PBS did a documentary history of the brothers, and the pair released EB '84, an album that brought them smartly up to date. Perhaps because their rift had been so long and so deep, or maybe just because rock exists in a state of perpetual flux, the reunion...
...offer, I made clear to General Secretary Gorbachev that if we could reach agreement on the use of an effective verification system incorporating such a method to verify the [Theshhold Test Ban Treaty], I would be prepared to move foward on ratification of both" the threshold treaty and its companion measure limiting peaceful nuclear explosions...
...what of the countries where people are struggling to "secure rights which have been ours from birth," but where the tyranny is not of Soviet issue? To be consistent and credible, the Reagan Doctrine needs a companion, an idea of how the U.S. intends to advance democracy in a non-Communist setting. The success of U.S. policy in helping the transition to democracy in the Philippines suggests an answer: a doctrine of the third force...
...prepared for bed during an overnight stay with her boyfriend's family in Yonkers, N.Y., last week, Diane Elsroth, 23, complained of feeling ill. Her solicitous companion, Michael Notarnicola, also 23, brought her two capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol from what he said was a previously unopened bottle purchased a week earlier by his mother. Twelve hours later, the stenographer, daughter of a New York State trooper, was found dead of what was later diagnosed as acute cyanide poisoning. Her death touched off a new scare, reminiscent of the still unsolved Tylenol panic of 1982, in which seven people...