Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Funny, perhaps, but sad too. The fear of terror in the skies and on the earth is so great that a self-starting shaver can be taken for a bomb. And that is how it is in relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. We see warheads jutting from each other's baggage, and we live in mutual fear...
What is glasnost? One could describe glasnost metaphorically as the air above and the national economy as the earth below. It is easier and faster to refresh the air than it is to turn and fertilize the earth, yet purified air is necessary before healthy changes can be made in the earth. So it is too early for us to speak of economic triumphs, and unlike the old days, nobody is making any messianic promises. We must wait for the earth to absorb the air, and be enriched...
...collection of groups that Western intelligence agencies know little about. All appear to be allied with the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hizballah, or Party of God, which seems to be largely controlled by Iran. The terrorist groups -- Islamic Jihad, Revolutionary Justice Organization and the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth -- may compete with one another and goad one another on. Or, as Secretary of State George Shultz observed last week, "It is our basic information that, with whatever names may emerge, they are to a substantial degree linked together. We also observe some very strong ties to Iran...
Their wide, staring eyes and matchstick arms are the all too familiar icons of hunger and despair. The Third World's starving millions are truly the wretched of the earth, and in recent years the affluent West has lavished billions of dollars in efforts to feed them. Yet famine relief is a very small part of the roughly $1 trillion in aid that rich nations have given poor ones since World War II in the largest voluntary transfer of wealth in human history. Throughout the world today, thousands of public and private organizations are spending some $35 billion a year...
Christian Lacroix conquers the Paris fashion world with bustles, ruffles and flaring taffeta. But how on earth does a woman sit down...