Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groundwork for a summit conference later this year. Dobrynin assured the President that while Gorbachev was setting no "preconditions" for the meeting, the Kremlin wanted to know ahead of time--presumably by prior agreement--what could be accomplished. The U.S. reply: fair enough. At his press conference the following evening, President Reagan sidestepped questions about recent Soviet criticism of his policies. "We're trying to go forward," he maintained. "We're planning for a summit here." As part of his ritual of leave-taking, Dobrynin presented Reagan with an electric samovar for making tea and nine blue-and-white porcelain...
...were so tightly packed that it took 9 1/2 hours for the Bhutto motorcade to travel the eight miles from the airport to the site of a rally in Lahore. There Bhutto, wearing the red, black and green colors of her Pakistan People's Party (P.P.P.), demanded "free and fair" elections well before national balloting that is scheduled to take place in 1990, and predicted a "peaceful revolution" otherwise. "After seeing this meeting," Bhutto told a cheering throng of more than 200,000 people, "another Marcos will be fleeing this country...
...bachelor. The Lieutenant of the Tower (David Magill), another Fairfax fan, agrees to find him a woman who will marry him before his execution in exchange for a hundred crown dower. The woman in question is is Elsie Maynard (Michelle French), a traveling minstrelette who does the country fair circuit with jestering partner Jack Point (Peter F. Miller). Point hopes someday to marry Elsie, but agrees to the scheme after hearing the clink of the hundred crowns...
...alma mater. Harvard, it seems, isn't winning the research grant sweepstakes in the Boston area; this could be a potential cause for concern. After all, the more research money available at an institution, the more attractive it is to prospective faculty members. Why can't the prestige of Fair Harvard pull down the big bucks? Mavbe they should try playing the Lottery, or go on TV game shows--after all, those researchers must be wicked smart. Just imagine them on Jeopardy...
...consider the letter [by Joan Bok] to be inappropriate and undemocratic. The Board of Overseers is supposed to be administering this election in a fair and impartial manner. In a democratic society, the people administering the election don't instruct the voters how to vote, why or for whom," said "Alumni Against Apartheid" candidate John T. Plotz...