Word: existing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only outsiders (and Johnny Carson) were cracking jokes about NBC. An air of frantic desperation hung over the place as then Chairman Fred Silverman threw onto his schedule, and then pulled off, one expensive flop after another. To the savviest TV producers, "it was as if NBC didn't exist," recalls Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties). "We didn't go there with an idea, because we knew it would be crucified." Silverman, who had earned a reputation as a programming wunderkind at CBS and then ABC earlier in the '70s, was also scalded by the boycott of the Moscow Olympics...
Given the present exacerbated state of relations between our two countries and the present aggravations in the world at large, we must admit that today, thus far, there do exist certain restraints on the actions of either side. There is strategic parity. That is, after all, the foundation of equal security. There are also still in effect such treaties as the ABM treaty, the SALT II provisions, the nonproliferation treaty, the banning of nuclear weapons tests in three environments. To this day, so far, they are in operation. But even today, attempts are being made to remove these restraints...
...plays and fell in love with the creative environment. You do things you wouldn't otherwise try, and you relax when you come offstage by going to watch something else." Adds Naughton, who first appeared there in 1972: "The real crime is that a place like Williamstown does not exist in the wintertime. Then we could have a true national theater...
...decide to play ice hockey in your living room or set fire to your roommate's desk, your proctor will probably lay down a few guidelines. But, beyond regulating minor catastrophes, proctors are generally lenient and have not enforced curfews (none exist anymore) for at least 10 years...
...Mugabe's crude political analysis, Zimbabwe is not a socialist country now and does not seem to be heading in that direction. According to Marx, who expounded most on how socialism is achieved, this social system requires a revolution initiated by the working class. Also, economic classes do not exist after socialism is intact. Both of these attributes are missing in Zimbabwe...