Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This problem will not go away and, in fact, will only get worse as polling becomes more accurate and quicker projections can be made. On the horizon is the instant-response Qube cable system which would allow immediate living room surveys of constituents via their TV sets...
Friction between the U.S. and its Middle East ally Israel has been generating rhetorical sparks ever since President Reagan proposed his bold peace plan on Sept. 1. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's instant and fiery rejection prompted sharp criticism of the Begin government in official Washington and even among a number of American Jews. But all that was eclipsed last week as a series of shocking events in Lebanon set U.S. and Israeli policies on a potential collision course...
...event that precipitated the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps had occurred scarcely 72 hours earlier. At exactly 4:08 last Tuesday afternoon, an explosion in the heart of East Beirut shook buildings for blocks around. An instant later, a huge cloud of dust and smoke began to rise above a three-story structure whose ganglia lay exposed and bare. In the street outside, a Christian Phalangist member of the Lebanese parliament raised his hand to his mouth and cried "Ya Allah![My God!] That's the Kata...
SEVENTH: In the successful resolution of the crisis, restraint was as important as strength. In particular, we avoided any early initiation of battle by American forces, and indeed we took no action of any kind that would have forced an instant and possibly ill-considered response. Moreover, we limited our demands to the restoration of the status quo ante, that is, the removal of any Soviet nuclear capability from Cuba. There was no demand for "total victory" or "unconditional surrender." These choices gave the Soviet government both time and opportunity to respond with equal restraint. It is wrong, in relations...
...second bill before the legislature that could benefit Harvard would provide the preliminary steps for a statewide telecommunications network. The system would allow instant, two-way communication between Massachusetts universities. For example, a professor at UMass-Amherst could give a guest lecture at Harvard without leaving his campus, and students would be able to ask questions from their Cambridge classroom...