Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On all these matters Shultz has moved with supreme caution and kept his own counsel. Even in talking with close aides, he always says "The President thinks ..." rather than "I think." Says one longtime associate: "Shultz moves like an elephant. He waits to put each foot down until he can...
Why the severe treatment? The government explained, not very convincingly, that Nkomo had been trying to leave the country under a false name, and that he was illegally carrying 300 Zimbabwean dollars. Demanded Nkomo, who is over 6 feet tall, weighs around 300 Ibs. and is easily recognized all over...
The incident dramatized the uneasy relations between the U.S. and Israel as Washington presses the Israelis to withdraw from Lebanon. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon added a new element of tension to the situation when he declared last week in a newspaper interview that the Soviet Union and Israel should...
When the project is completed in three years, the 33.3-mile Seikan tube will be the world's longest underwater tunnel. But while construction workers last week shouted "Banzai!" and broke out sake, other Japanese wondered why. In fact, Yomiuri, Tokyo's biggest newspaper, dismissed the tunnel as...
Fortunately, this free-market competition is paying big dividends for consumers. In shopping for new phones, buyers can indulge their tastes for the fashionable or merely eccentric and choose from a variety of helpful features, like automatic dialing for frequently used numbers and speaker phones. There are phones that carry...