Word: directe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...45th year, the era that historian John Lewis Gaddis calls the "long peace" is surpassing the stable stretches imposed by Metternich and then Bismarck in the 19th century. One reason is that nuclear weapons made localized wars and territorial disputes too dangerous to allow. They also made a direct confrontation between East and West or a Soviet invasion of Central Europe unthinkable...
WASHINGTON--Housing Secretary Jack Kemp yesterday suspended an elderly-housing program, saying it has cost the government more than $119 million in direct losses and failed to serve the low-income people for whom it was designed...
Kemp said that in addition to direct losses, the program which he suspended yesterday has incurred loan defaults in excess of $250 million...
...American flag outside the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. "America, the red, white and blue, we spit on you," chanted the crowd. Until now, despite the frequency with which the flag had been burned at antiwar rallies in the 1960s and '70s, the Supreme Court had avoided a direct ruling on whether the Government could prohibit such acts...
...President Daniel Ortega and Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo sat down for a 90-minute chat last week, the two men, frequent antagonists in the past, were uncommonly genial. So when Ortega requested that Obando go to Washington and ask the Bush Administration for direct talks between the two countries, the Cardinal promised to think it over...