Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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British Prime Minister Thatcher and Helmut Kohl, who had replaced Schmidt in October 1982 as West German Chancellor, were Reagan's staunchest allies; then-support for deployment was rock solid. But they both faced elections, and they needed a new, more flexible-looking U.S. proposal to help outflank their...
Some Israelis were unhappy about the lopsided nature of the exchange, but Prime Minister Shamir defended it. Said he: "We paid a high price, but we were faced with the fact that at any moment the worst could happen." Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, breaking a three-month public silence...
No docudrama, on the other hand, no matter how well intentioned or how skillfully made, can avoid the taint of artifice, of things having been manipulated to make a point (or just a profit). Even in The Day After, much of the power came from the quasidocumentary idea that nuclear...
As an alleged cost-efficiency move, the University decided, recently, to contract out the work done heretofore by approximately fifty structural trades employees. Thus these fifty-odd workers faced the crisis of employment termination (lay-offs) as the University contracted an outside firm to replace these workers. A complex agreement...
Nor were they the only ones troubled by the most serious crisis the island has faced since the 1974 invasion by Turkish troops. Because Denktash's action exacerbated already crackling tensions between Greece and Turkey, two NATO allies, it threatened further disruption on the alliance's southern flank...