Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before a treaty is completed. The initiative suggests measures to count warheads on missiles, tag weapons at manufacturing plants and ban such impediments to verification as encryption of missile test radio signals during launches. "This isn't putting the cart before the horse," says Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, "but putting them next to each other, where they belong...
...patriotism. The Senate voted 97-to-3 for a resolution by majority leader George Mitchell and minority leader Bob Dole that expressed "profound disappointment" in the decision. "I will join the efforts of other members of Congress in rectifying this action, including supporting a constitutional amendment, if necessary," Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn declared...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne- Marie North, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Rosemary Byrnes, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez...
...1830s, the prosperous Cherokee farmers of North Carolina and Georgia had leaders educated in white universities and a written constitution recognized by the U.S. But they stood in the way of white expansion, so they were driven from their homes and herded along what came to be called the Trail of Tears to the Oklahoma territory. There, Humphrey's tale has it, the survivors were forced once more to migrate. The weight of such history would seem almost too oppressive for fiction to handle. But Humphrey skillfully balances the misery with the detachment of ancient family legend. The tale descends...
REPORTER-RESEARCHERS: Rosemary Byrnes, Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, Jeanne-Marie North (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Bernard Baumohl, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Katherine Mihok, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Nancy Newman, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman...