Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Alexander Haig tipped his hand. During his first stopover, in Geneva, he told the world that he would tell Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the "outrage" felt by the U.S. over the Soviet-backed crackdown in Poland. The poker-faced Gromyko, who in his time has dealt with eight American Secretaries of State, responded that he had "absolutely no intention" of discussing Poland. The meeting promised, as Haig then observed, to be a "very short...
Mubarak has dealt firmly with the country's Moslem militants without seeming to be vengeful. Like Sadat, he says he will not permit religious-based political parties. But Sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim of the American University in Cairo observes, "He is not doing things that antagonize the militants. He gives an image of being clean, firm and fair." The fundamentalists, in fact, approve of Mubarak's campaign against corruption, his proposal to curb luxury imports, and his studiously private family life. "Some of the militants think he is redeemable and that they can establish a dialogue with...
Several Fogg officials and visiting committee members denounced the decision. "The Fogg has been dealt a blow from which the museum and the university it exists to serve may never recover," Seymore Slive, the museum's director, said...
Kennedy, who controlled the taping system by notifying his secretary outside the Oval Office, also recorded two conversations with Archibald Cox, Loeb University Professor, who was then solicitor general. One conversation dealt with the crisis in admitting a Black student to the University of Mississippi, another on the Tidelands oil issue in Louisiana...
...international conference in New York City last week called Designed Environments for All People dealt with such products and those who are forced to use them. Among the sponsors of the conference: the National Center for a Barrier Free Environment. Attended by more than 300 architects and designers, the conference tried to make those present even more aware that the world is not inhabited exclusively by the ablebodied...