Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow's call for conferences received an equally cool welcome. The U.S. believes that summits are useful primarily to ratify agreements already reached. Otherwise, the fanfare surrounding such meetings leads to false hopes and possible misunderstandings. As for the Warsaw Pact proposals on arms control in Europe, a senior British diplomat suggested that the most effective means of lessening tensions would be for the Soviets to halt their deployment of SS-20 nuclear missiles...
...September, Lechner had refined his shot-blocking technique enough so that teams have managed just more than eight goals per game against him. Lack of size forces Lechner to rely more on quickness than on positioning. Nonetheless, he does the job--and well: he'll carry a cool 65 per cent save ratio into today's game...
...Mondale has become a key adviser to Carter--a rather dubious honor in recent times. Widely regarded as unusually intelligent and a smooth operator on Capitol Hill, Mondale's main fault appears to be that his loyalty to Carter occasionally outdistances his better judgment. And in many respects, the cool, detached liberal from Minnesota is still somewhat of an enigma in the Carter administration...
Some years ago, Marshall McLuhan made quite a splash among cocktail-party sophisticates by proclaiming that television was a "cool medium," whereas some other cultural forms were "hot media." In recent years, Peter Brook, a highly sophisticated director, and his Paris-based company Le Centre International de Créations Théatrales have devised modes by which theater can be turned into a cool medium, perhaps even stone-cold...
...competition for the Moscow TV rights was an unseemly affair marked by double-dealing, broken promises, and the machinations of mysterious intermediaries. NBC finally won out by striking a bargain with the shadowy Bock, who initially was CBS's agent in the negotiations. He had been paid a cool $1.7 million and had the Games virtually locked up for the network. But CBS pulled out at the last minute, saying it was appalled by the Soviets' deviousness during the bargaining. Bock then offered the Olympics to NBC, in return for $1 million up front and production contracts totaling...