Word: coversation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The complex treaty negotiations, which began in 1974, involved diplomats from 154 countries. The document covers issues ranging from the definition of an island to pollution safeguards. It guarantees freedom of passage on the high seas and sets a twelve-mile territorial limit and 200-mile "economic," or fishing, zone...
This summer's work covers only about 7 percent of the total space in the Houses, but officials still say they worry that the project may prove too ambitious for a "trial run." The work entails repairs of roots, gutters, floors, walls, wiring and plumbing. It also includes touching up...
Working on the story proved emotionally absorbing to all the journalists involved, many of whom are women. Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, who contributed to both previous covers, found the issue no less complicated than when she started reporting on the women's movement a dozen years ago. "And...
Indeed, Hollywood may be bent on disclosing more than anybody could possibly absorb about the stars-or, for that matter, care to know. Gary Grant, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and (in separate covers) Elizabeth Taylor are merely the foremost subjects of the latest crop of biographies, autobiographies and...
During the incessant pulling on and off of the "covers" (tarpaulins), British journalists and other kinds adjourned to a convenient bar. Invariably, the conversation wound its way to tradition. "Americans seem even fonder of tradition than we are," said Laurie Pignon of the Daily Mail, "one supposes because they have...