Word: frostiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This disorder may sound like a mere coldness of temperament. It's not, although it seems to be one of the frostiest rules of society: to care to a certain extent about various individuals around you, you have to distance yourself from the chatterboxes who would have you know every curious thing, and memorize every curious conclusion, about every other human in your hallway. These same petty details, unfortunately, are what often pass for social contact...
Foreign Policy. Reagan has shown more flexibility than his hard-line campaign rhetoric indicated, but the jury is still out. Though he steered U.S.-Soviet relations to their frostiest point in decades, the President has also put forward sweeping arms-control proposals; their negotiability remains to be seen. Subduing his strong pro-Israeli inclinations, he announced last September a sensible and promising peace plan for the Middle East, but neither side has yet accepted it even as a basis for negotiations. Relations with European allies, a high Reagan priority, were badly damaged by the Administration's ill-considered sanctions...