Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with memories of the Iran arms-for-hostages swaps still fresh, American officials too have been careful to reject suggestions that the two nations are conducting anything like hostage negotiations. "You want to do things that are justifiable on their own merits and defensible in terms of U.S. interests," said a State Department official. "And if Iran wants to take it as a signal, fine...
...urban masterpiece. Tourists flock to its ice rink to watch skaters twirl and to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes do their high kicks with uncanny precision. But last week the Manhattan landmark, which houses U.S. companies ranging from General Electric to Simon & Schuster, took on a fresh symbolism. Control of the 19-building center passed into foreign hands when Japan's Mitsubishi Estate Co. agreed to pay $846 million for a 51% share of the Rockefeller Group, which owns most of the complex...
...none of the probes seriously pursued the possibility of illegal diversion. Experts say that although the material was packed in sealed containers, it was sent by commercial carrier and did not receive the special safeguards used for shipments of plutonium or enriched uranium. Last week's report urged a fresh investigation and a tightening of procedures. Critics welcomed the recommendations but wondered why they came so late. Asked Congressman Edward Markey of Massachusetts, who released the report to the press: "Do we have to wait until Pakistan, Libya or South Africa announce they have got an H-bomb before...
...write a seemingly infinite number of similarly insipid bubble-gum pop tunes about unrequited love. Clever listeners will note that every one of the five Jerry Williams songs on Journeyman covers this topic, each with an equal lack of depth. And if these songs do not sound particularly fresh, that may be because four of the five were written at various times between 1985 and 1988, during the August and Behind the Sun recording sessions...
Brighter links to Clapton's blues-based past are provided on Journeyman in the guise of three fresh covers of old blues tunes--"Hard Times," "Hound Dog" and "Before You Accuse...