Word: guests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unless the alliance clarifies the purpose of these missiles, the accomplishment is likely to be transitory, since the basic European attitude toward the missiles is that of a host toward a now unwanted guest whose invitation to dinner it would be too awkward to withdraw. Some prominent Europeans purport to see in the missiles' presence a hidden American design to confine a nuclear war to Europe. Others treat them as one of those peculiar American aberrations that periodically upset the alliance's equilibrium. Too few recognize, and even fewer are willing to admit, that in fact the missiles link...
...crowd of 50,000 cheered wildly as Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega read off a guest list extending from Afghanistan to Zambia. They cheered louder still when Ortega proposed lowering the voting age from 18 to 16, a move less democratic than canny, since the Sandinistas' main support derives from the young. When the cheering abated, however, some serious questions remained...
...weekend-long round of Washington parties (at $5,000 a head for the complete package) was highlighted by a dinner dance, where Prince Rainier, 60, Princess Caroline, 27, Princess Stephanie, 19, and Prince Albert, 25, joined by the President and Nancy Reagan, led the 600-person guest list. Princess Caroline, who took a turn on the dance floor with the President, shed a tear when he toasted her mother. Princess Grace, said Reagan, "possessed not only an outward beauty but an inward character, sincerity, strength of purpose and loving-kindness." When the last of the revelers had jetted...
Though the trip was scarcely noticed at the time and is barely remembered, Chernenko has visited the U.S. One day in 1974, retired U.S. Diplomat Nathaniel Davis recalls, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin called him at the State Department and asked whether he could bring around a "personal guest" from Moscow. The guest turned out to be Chernenko, who had come to Washington to see his daughter. She was then either an employee or, more likely, the wife of an employee of the Soviet embassy. Chernenko was interested in discussing the State Department's experience with computers in handling personnel matters...
...Jones industrial average go from 776.92 on Aug. 12,1982, to 1287.20 on Nov. 29,1983, has run its course. Last week the Dow Jones closed at 1148.87. Says Leon Cooperman, chairman of the investment-policy committee for the Wall Street firm of Goldman, Sachs and a guest at last week's meeting of the TIME Board of Economists: "Unless we deal with the budget deficit and can get lower interest rates, the odds are that the bull market is over...