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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.--President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will hold their first summit meeting next year, officials announced Saturday as the two superpowers completed a half-dozen accords and cleared a major roadblock to a treaty on slashing long-range nuclear weapons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush, Gorbachev to Hold Arms Summit | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Half-serious, half-mocking in tone, the book is a Bartlett's of botches that cannot decide whether it wants to be a reference book for hack writers--footnotes and all--or a coffee-table text for the literati--hence the discussion of "quotesmanship," with the politically-correct parentheses presenting quotes-woman beside quotesman...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Bartlett's Book of Misquotations | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

Painted against the backdrop of a national cultural identity constantly changing its definitions, Leibowitz's extensive investigation of Americans' personal style and all the misrepresentations and half-truths contained within is justifiably ambitious...

Author: By Susan B. Class, | Title: Lost in Pretension | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

...Huskies opened the scoring midway through the first period and were up by two goals at the half...

Author: By Martha C. Abbruzzese, | Title: Northeastern Nails Stickwomen in Rain-Swept Shutout, 3-0 | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

After adjusting to the new surface, the puddles and the rain, the Crimson improved in the second half. But Northeastern was unwavering in its attack. The Huskies tallied a third goal after miscommunication among the Harvard defense resulted in an uncontested shot on goal...

Author: By Martha C. Abbruzzese, | Title: Northeastern Nails Stickwomen in Rain-Swept Shutout, 3-0 | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

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