Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nixon Administration at first sought to link SALT to Soviet geopolitical conduct. But it found itself under mounting pressure to begin arms-control talks, in effect unconditionally. Finally, the Defense Department, hitherto leery of SALT, seized on it as a means to close the gap that congressional budget cuts were opening up between Soviet and American strategic forces; the Pentagon urged us to put a numerical ceiling on Soviet offensive missile deployments through arms-control negotiations...
...might say, in a big way. The creeps and crazies, the depressingly sane, the visionaries--Bellow has claimed them all as his province. So it should be no surprise that his latest novel. The Dean's December pushes back the borders a bit further, to include the hitherto unincluded. His new annexation is the "jungle"--America's urban centers and their massive waste...
...this same billion were released through tax cuts. 112.000 jobs would be created. Above all, we will enhance the Security of the free world, not by using the self-defeating method of an interminable escalation of armaments which only intensified paranoia, but by employing the very resources which had hitherto created bombs, towards the creation of a concord of fundamental arms. The key aims will be design and build conditions in which democracy can bloom. When there is such overwhelming agreement on strategy tactics, the raison d' etre of our stockpiles of weapons is obviated. Only then...
...years ago: there is nothing so exciting as a live performance. The nonprofit Mark Taper Forum has become a showcase for serious, innovative drama; dozens of tiny, off-off-Broadway type theaters have sprung up in the shadow of the freeways; and big Broadway producers have found a huge, hitherto un tapped audience in what they thought was hostile territory. "The whole thing has broken wide open," says Robert Me Tyre, Los Angeles manager for the Nederlander theater chain. "The dollars are here and L.A. is now the No. 2 theater market in the country-coming closer to New York...
...Northern Irish and the English, or even between the Catholics in the north and south. The connections show up in indirect ways. Teen-age girls in Belfast adore the romantic novels of Joan Lingard, especially Across the Barricades ("when Catholic Kevin and Protestant Sadie are old enough for their hitherto un acknowledged attraction to flower into love"). It is not wishful thinking, exactly; Bernadette admits she would never date a Prod, because "nothing could come of it." But the possibility exists, nonetheless?a fact that infuriates the gunmen at the doors...