Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wander into the Reeves private hotel, a tidy Victorian row house overlooking Shepherd's Bush Green, and you can easily imagine yourself in any of central * London's small, discreet hotels. The woman at the front desk will offer a cordial greeting as you check in, tell you about the facilities and invite you to have tea or a drink at the bar. Unless, of course, you are a man. In that case, you will be urged, very graciously, to leave...
Unlike Reagan, Bush does not like to flout his own bureaucracy. But now he had reason for boldness: Gorbachev had ponied up deep cuts in Soviet conventional forces in Europe at a May 11 meeting with Secretary of State James Baker in Moscow. "That was really the green light," said an official. "If we didn't move then, we were going to go to the NATO summit without anything." In a May 15 Oval Office meeting, Bush, Baker, Scowcroft, chief of staff John Sununu, Joint Chiefs Chairman William Crowe and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney gathered to discuss ways to make...
...supplied Baltic shops. The Estonians discuss establishing their own credit-card system, and the Latvians talk about creating an alternative currency as early as next January. It would be paid to local workers and redeemable in special stores. Last month the Supreme Soviet finally gave Estonia and Lithuania the green light to try running their economies free of interference from central ministries in Moscow. If these experiments prove successful, the three Baltic states could serve as the economic locomotive Gorbachev badly needs to pull the country's other twelve republics toward perestroika...
Casale and Lerman think it is highly significant that Baby Boomers are becoming increasingly concerned with protecting the environment. But green politics, while important, is more or less concerned with quality of life issues. It entails no sacrifice and is not really an effort to assist those who have been screwed over by life...
...Rabin's idea, Bush gave thinly veiled encouragement. On Monday, before the announcement of Higgins' killing, Secretary of State James Baker instructed the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, William Brown, to pass on the message that the U.S. would not "object" to the proposed swap. Though it was a pale green light at best, the Israelis recognized it as a sufficient O.K. But by the time the Israelis announced their offer, videotapes of Higgins' hanging body were already being distributed by Hizballah...