Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's new team member is calm, cool and Washington-wise...
...Administration's foreign policy, but it was clear from the beginning that no one had any serious intention of blocking the nomination. In trying to cope with two battlefront confrontations in the Middle East, a clash with European allies on economic policy and an uncertain but distinctly cool relationship with the Soviet Union, the President urgently needs all the professional help...
Noon at the Palestinian cemetery. The air is unusually cool under trees that look like umbrellas. Photographs of the dead are planted over the graves instead of headstones. They look like yearbook pictures. Four new half-dug graves lie open in the red soil. The older ones are festooned with the kinds of ribbons used on candy boxes. A discarded stretcher lies off in a corner beside a green hospital mask. There is shelling to the south. Back at the Commodore a message comes through that Colonel Azmi is reported killed in Tyre. Is the boy Samer alive...
Clearly, the Western nations have come to a critical juncture. They must, cool off popular expectations and change the more-more mentality that has favored present consumption over investment for the future. To do that, they will have to curb government spending, control inflation and bring down interest rates. The world may never return to the heady growth of the postwar years, but correct and consistent policies can get Western countries out of their long-running slump. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by D.L Cortu/Bonn and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...movie theaters this summer are long and eager; faces of every hue and age glow with anticipation. Outside Los Angeles' Cinerama Dome theater, a young woman on crutches stands patiently for 90 minutes, waiting to buy a ticket. Outside a theater in Washington, D.C., an elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard of Oz." In Atlanta, two schoolgirls are still...