Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indicated a willingness to amend the ABM treaty to tighten some of its imprecisions and extend the period of notice each side would have to give before withdrawing from the treaty. This willingness to dicker with Moscow over the ABM treaty is being interpreted as a sweetener, a hint to the Soviets that the U.S. may be prepared to agree later to a longterm restriction of SDI. So it may be. But the fact remains that the U.S. is still playing hard to get on SDI. The Administration had long since reaffirmed a policy of abiding by the ABM treaty...
Elena Ceausescu's rise to political prominence has been extraordinary. Her official titles only hint at the full extent of the influence she wields. As a member of the Permanent Bureau of the Political Executive Committee, she is part of the country's top decision-making body. As a First Deputy Premier, she supervises the secret police, determines promotions within the party, and has launched or supported programs ranging from the banning of abortions to a crackdown on press freedom. Her overall power is formidable. Says Doran Tudoran, a Rumanian poet now living in the U.S.: "Elena is very strong...
...they say, in cases where a Harvard student is accused of date rape, the College's Administrative Board will do little if there is any hint of drug or alcohol use by either individual. The College has, however, formed an ad hoc committee within its Administrative Board to hear cases relating to peer harassment. The problem, says Ellen Porter Honnet, assistant dean of the College for coeducation, is that "two students with different interpretations of the same series of events make it very difficult to determine blame, even though one's sympathies lie with the victim...
...mere hint of a comeback sent TV crews and reporters scurrying in pursuit of the aging superstar. After all, when he was retired ten months ago because of a leg injury, John Henry had won a record $6.5 million, $2.3 million more than his closest competitor. Now comes the news that the 1981 and 1984 Horse of the Year is in training again at Hollywood Park and will soon be back on the track. The change of heart apparently came last month after John Henry, 11, showed a hankering to race again during a visit to Kentucky's Keeneland race...
Throughout the campaign, Ershad made it clear that he would brook no nonsense from his adversaries. When one opposition leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, the widow of a former President who was slain in an attempted military coup in 1981, called for an election boycott and seemed to hint that the armed forces should distance themselves from the government, Ershad slapped her under virtual house arrest. He then declared that anyone urging a boycott would go to prison for up to seven years...