Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union has also been cool to Syria's peace-keeping efforts in Lebanon, and presumably felt that supporting Syria in Lebanon now was not worth taking the risk of worsening relations between the superpowers. Under the terms of a 1980 friendship treaty, Moscow is obliged to consult with Syria on issues of national security, but it has steadfastly resisted Syrian efforts to make the military ties more binding. Even though the Kremlin has promised to make good Syria's war losses, Western diplomats noted last week that military shipments have not been sufficient to replace...
None of this means that movie stars in private do not leave behind their public images. Ladd: The Life, The Legend, The Legacy of Alan Ladd reveals that the actor dwelt in a hell of insecurity that was utterly incompatible with the cool, confident screen image. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford establishes that her poised mother Joan occasionally became a hysterical, sadistic monster at home. Bing Crosby, the easygoing crooner of love ballads, behaved like a callous heel toward his first wife Dixie, if Bing Crosby: The Hollow Man is to be believed...
...exception of Israeli leaders and their more fervent American supporters, who are worried that Bechtel's extensive operations in Saudi Arabia have given Shultz an excessive sympathy for the Arab cause, foreign leaders who know Shultz -and a surprising number know him quite well-regard him as a cool, pragmatic professional...
Reagan's rhetoric may have cost the U.S. propaganda points at the U.N. Delegates to the disarmament conference gave the President only a cool round of handclapping after his speech. Said Reagan to aides: "That was a hard audience." In contrast, the delegates had burst into applause two days earlier at one point during Gromyko's address. That demonstration occurred when Gromyko read to the conference a message from U.S.S.R. President Leonid Brezhnev declaring that the Soviet Union "assumes an obligation not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. This obligation shall become effective immediately...
...make money. But it's less conservatism than materialism." Says Lillie Dollinger, an economics major at Texas A & M: "In the '80s the issues are money and jobs, and the conservatives are the ones getting students stirred up." At the same time, there has been a distinct cool ing on college campuses toward affirmative action: students tend to view special help for minorities as a threat to their own chances of success...