Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place still looms, as it always has. China is the stuff of our earliest memories, the faraway land where children were starving (or so our parents told us when we were young), so we had better finish our dinners. The place we could reach by digging deep in our sandboxes; a measure of size ("I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China"); a country whose mere name conjured mystery and intrigue...
...State betting plan is in the very earliest planning stages right now, but a loud voice of protest has been raised already by that bastion of pure, untampered athleticism, the National Football League...
...lecture a bunch of chemists or engineers about the importance of not saying "It would be appreciated if you would contact the undersigned by telephone at your earliest possible convenience," and instead saying "Please call me as soon as you can," which was revealed wisdom to these people...
...meeting that ended with a compromise on the hotly divisive subject of negotiations to lower the number of short-range nuclear forces (SNF) in Europe. West Germany won agreement that bargaining would indeed begin, but not until conventional-arms reductions were under way, which would be 1992 at the earliest. Britain and the U.S. held fast for agreement that such talks would aim at only a partial reduction of U.S. and Soviet warheads and not, as Bonn wanted, at their complete elimination...
Union organizers and administrators attribute this shift in attitude to the earliest part of the contract negotiations...