Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thus no reason to expect "a turn for the better" in superpower relations. Reagan put git more pungently to aides as Secretary of State George Shultz was escorting Gromyko out of the White House. Said the President: "Now I've learned to speak Russian-Nyet." In a formal briefing for the journalists who jammed the White House Press Room, Shultz reported just one achievement: "We agreed to stay in touch." Shultz pursued the subject in a follow-up meeting with Gromyko Saturday, and his aides said the Soviets expressed willingness to talk more frequently "above the ambassadorial level...
...demonstrate Soviet pleasure at the upcoming resumption of talks with leaders of the United States. It was also meant to cast Mondale as the more reasonable, moderate half of the Presidential candidate duo, as a practical statesman aware of the urgency of superpower communications. At a brief and formal meeting with the President earlier in the week, by contrast, Gromyko was careful to maintain an expression of utter solemnity...
...waters and was seized by a Soviet border-patrol boat. The Americans, who were on a routine trip to carry supplies to a seismographic research vessel in the Bering Strait, were taken to the bleak Siberian outpost of Ureliki on Provideniya Bay and confined. Only after the U.S. launched formal protests in Washington and Moscow last week did the Soviets become cooperative in releasing the Americans and their ship. Captain Tabb Thorns and his crew of four were finally put aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sherman during a prearranged rendezvous in international waters. The episode underscored the propensity...
...athletes want to and can put a college education to use, many do not. For some reason, however, vast numbers of college administrators, athletic officials and the public at large adamantly presume that pre-professional football and basketball players in particular must enroll and "make substantial progress" in a formal four-year university degree program before they are eligible for the big leagues. Unless basketball or football players go the traditional university route, the door to a sports career is quickly slammed shut...
House masters have been extremely receptive to the idea, the Winthrop House representative said, adding that many have been reluctant to create formal student faculty meal programs because the individual Houses lacked the funds...