Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ACSR, which has been at the center of the controversy over Harvard's South Africa-related investments, is made up in equal parts of students, faculty, and alumni...
...government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had to rush to rescue the once proud pound from sinking below $1 in value. The pound has always been something of an anomaly in international currency markets. While it takes several deutsche marks or French francs, and hundreds of Japanese yen, to equal one U.S. dollar, the British pound is the only major Western currency worth more than a dollar. In 1949 a pound was worth $4.03, and as recently...
...ready to disclose to the press. Accounts differed as to whether Gromyko had renewed the Soviet demand that British and French nuclear forces be counted in any eventual agreement. It really did not matter much; he is quite certain to do so when actual bargaining resumes. The U.S. is equally sure to stick to its position that American and Soviet intermediate- range missiles be limited to equal numbers of warheads. It will again argue that British and French missiles must be left out of the equation because the U.S.--and Britain and France--believes an INF agreement should limit only...
...committee expects that income will equal or even surpass the cost, as it did last time. The sources: ticket sales, souvenirs ranging from cuff links and tie-bar sets ($25) to porcelain eagles ($1,750), and $2.2 million from advertising on the televised portion of the Inaugural gala (ABC). But some cost-cutting efforts have backfired. Seeking 200 performers for public events, a committee consultant placed an ad in a trade publication for nonunion, "clean-cut, All-American types," to work for expenses but no wages. Several unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, which Reagan headed more than three decades...
...sets of talks that broke off at the end of 1983: the strategic arms talks (START), concerning intercontinental missiles and warheads, and the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces talks (INF), on missiles in Europe. The U.S. presumably would renew its proposals for deep cuts in strategic weapons and roughly equal numbers of medium-range missiles...