Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Moscow session was scheduled last March, there were hopes the two leaders might be able to sign a groundbreaking treaty on long-range weapons. But the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva have proved so complex that a treaty anytime soon is considered unlikely. The remaining points of disagreement include establishing verifiable limits on air- and sea-launched cruise missiles, placing mutual restrictions on deployment of mobile missiles and, of course, working out an acceptable link between START and Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative. The START treaty is about 90% complete, but as TIME Washington Bureau Chief...
Artistic Director Gilles St. Croix and Choreographer Debra Brown drill the cast regularly, not just on the complex movements involved but also on the artful commotion as one act swirls into the next. When the teeterboarders have finished (for some marvelously zany reason, they appear as penguins carrying briefcases), their boards must be danced lightly out of the ring. The tightwire supports must waft amusingly into the ring. Now, precisely on cue, Antoine the wire walker plays a soothing tune on his oboe for his nervous partner Agathe. Off to the side, Hand Balancer Amelie Demay, 19, shows a younger...
...point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average. The Brady commission, which the Reagan Administration appointed, contended in its report last January that Chicago's futures markets have gained inordinate leverage over New York because the two marketplaces play by such vastly different rules and fail to monitor their complex interactions...
...Byrd warned that it will be "extremely difficult" for a new bill to wend its way through the chamber's complex procedures before its Oct. 8 adjournment. "Anybody who thinks that can be done in the Senate is simply naive," he said...
...forces stormed the holy shrine and wiped out extremists demanding independence for Sikhs in Punjab. Last week paramilitary troops besieged an estimated 70 Sikh terrorists who were again turning the temple into a fortress. After a Sikh gunman shot at police, Indian security forces returned fire and surrounded the complex. Weeklong gun battles left more than 30 dead...