Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also urged the Soviet Union to cease an alleged buildup of intelligence gathering in Britain, saying that was an area excluded from the general improvement in relations between the countries...
...general response of the faculty to the want of a dean to get advice is that that is exactly his prerogative," said Brendan A. Maher, a member of the MacFarquhar Committee and the Committee on Resources. This summer, Maher will become dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Gerasimov said the talks, expected to set the agenda for further efforts to rebuild the relationship after a freeze of three decades, produced general agreement for eventual withdrawal of troops from the border...
Even so, consumer advocates fear that with the scarcity of competing ; carriers at many airports, surviving airlines will not hesitate to roll prices back up. At Danforth's urging, the General Accounting Office is currently comparing changes in airfares over the past five years at 53 airports to determine whether carriers that dominate traffic at certain hubs are jacking up their prices to exorbitant levels...
...Gorbachev is the architect of "new thinking" in international affairs, Shevardnadze is his master builder. Like the General Secretary, the amiable, white-haired diplomat has a smile that can melt ice. And like Gorbachev, Shevardnadze sometimes shows a glint of iron teeth. Thanks, in part, to Shevardnadze's diplomatic labors, Soviet tanks and troops have been withdrawn from Afghanistan and are being partially withdrawn from Eastern Europe. A whole class of nuclear weapons has been marked for destruction under the INF treaty signed in 1987. As the Soviets and their allies disentangle themselves from conflicts in Namibia and Cambodia, they...