Word: cordials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...13th Amendment, finally abolishing slavery. And the 19th Amendment declaring that women have the right to vote. But on this 17th day of September 1787, Washington wrote in his journal: "The business being closed, the members adjourned to the City Tavern, dined together and took a cordial leave of each other; after which I returned to my lodgings . . . and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed...
...that it hurt already fragile ties between Jews and the Vatican. In the U.S., Jewish groups threatened to boycott a meeting with the Pope in Florida next September. Nonetheless, Waldheim could barely contain his satisfaction. Said he: "The fact alone that the Pope did receive me in such a cordial way speaks for itself...
...there were moments during the meeting when the two leaders found themselves in what one observer called "cordial disaccord" and another acknowledged as "sharp exchanges." Said Chirac: "Our contact was rapid, alive with interruptions and immediate reactions. I found that style extremely pleasurable." The subject of arms control took up more than half of the meeting. Gorbachev repeatedly expressed his disappointment regarding France's assessment of Moscow's nuclear disarmament proposals. Chirac reiterated his government's acceptance of the zero option, which would remove medium-range missiles from Europe, but reserved judgment about Moscow's double-zero proposal, which would...
...inexpensive Japanese chips are busy looking for legal loopholes to exempt them from the U.S.-Japanese semiconductor agreement signed last year. In the meantime, tensions show no sign of abating. When Yasu calls on his friend Ron at the end of the month, the atmosphere is likely to be cordial but strained...
...relations, the authors write, lies in a reaffirmation of the SALT agreements limiting offensive and defensive weapons systems. But the U.S.'s relationship with the Soviet Union will never be friendly so long as the men in the Kremlin define security in terms of domestic and international coercion. Genuinely cordial Soviet-American relations rest on the unlikely assumption that Mikhail Gorbachev wants to liberalize the Eastern bloc and the even more remote possibility that the General Secretary can liberalize the Eastern bloc...