Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defensive arms race in space. That is just what the Pentagon wants and what the Soviets are determined to prevent. After & months of wrangling, Shultz persuaded Reagan to adopt a cumbersome compromise: the U.S. would claim that the Pentagon's "permissive" interpretation of the ABM treaty was correct but that it would nonetheless abide by the more "restrictive" reading that prohibits anything more than research on SDI. Uneasy with the Administration's position, Congress has demanded access to the secret negotiating record...
...stuff to the beach--suntan lotion, towel and book to read that you never get around to reading but do get sand in, but beach-goers on the Vineyard seem to bring more than most. This phenomenon is best described as power-beaching. To make the correct impression at a well-populated Vineyard beach, you must bring a whole slew of different accoutrements (not things, accoutrements). First of all, no sexy bathing suits allowed. For women, anything by Ralph Lauren or Lilly Pulitzer (especially the pink zebra bikini) is acceptable. Other than that, conservative one piece suits in solid primary...
TIME's economists agreed that world growth has become dangerously unbalanced. The U.S. has been living beyond its means for too long, and the other industrial nations have become too heavily dependent on trade with America for their growth. The crucial challenge that faces governments is to correct that imbalance, and some of the economists doubted that it will be met. Said Thurow: "Everybody is right: the U.S. ought to do something to balance its trade deficit and its federal budget faster than it is, but we are not going to do it for political reasons. The Americans are right...
...private one could only be revealed posthumously, once the unexpurgated diaries came to light. Vickers can hardly be called indiscreet for ransacking them. After all, the diarist himself believed that his record of snobbism and social vaulting, of erotic triumphs and humiliations would make "amusing reading" someday. He was correct, but the most remarkable passages are not those of the invert. Fame was Beaton's aphrodisiac, and if heterosexuality was required for a brilliant conquest, well then, he would try that costume for a while. When he met Greta Garbo after World War II, he energetically seduced...
...when people said everything that came before me was wrong." Setting sail in the prevailing wind and recognizing that "a wedding is a wonderful place to establish a good family feud that will last twelve generations." In September, Martin will release a video, Miss Manners' Guide to a Charmingly Correct Wedding...