Word: elders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets grew impatient with the slow pace of the negotiations in Geneva, so in the summer of 1986 they proposed higher-level talks. Paul Nitze, a State Department official and the Administration's elder statesman of arms control, led an American team that included Perle, Kampelman and others. Two sessions were held, in Moscow in August and in Washington in September. Both sides moved closer on details of a possible START agreement, but there was no progress...
Todd's life is a walk through the 20th century, and Boyd makes a lavish, if somewhat raveled, tour leader. Todd's mother, like Rousseau's, dies giving birth to him, and he grows up with his dour physician father and his pompous elder brother, not knowing much of love except for the erratic attentions of Oonagh, the daily. An indifferent student, he is eventually shipped off to a boarding school that he actually enjoys, in part because he never takes rugby seriously and in part because he is able to develop his talent for photography...
...slightly different reasons for coming to Harvard. "I picked Harvard because of the academics and the squash program," he says. "I was also psyched to be with my elder brother...
...ambivalence about allowing political pluralism to creep into the reform program, especially any pluralism that might lead to a reborn Solidarity. Actually, Walesa and other union leaders became involved less as an overtly political force, which they ceased to be after the union was banned in 1981, than as elder statesmen. But even that presence was too much for Poland's Communist leadership. Charging that Solidarity sought only to "evoke crisis and a confrontation," Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban vowed that the regime "had not, does not and will not talk" with union leaders...
...important that a large number of graduating seniors give to E4D because the University must be made aware of the strong opposition to its investment policy. If a large number of future alumni refuse on their first solicitation to give to a University fund, no doubt the elder fundraisers and endowment caretakers will take notice...