Word: keyed
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...Administrations he has served. "I've advised every President since Roosevelt," said Nitze last week. "And all, to some extent, have sought and taken that advice." That pointedly includes Ronald Reagan. As special adviser to the President and Secretary of State for Arms Control, Nitze played a key, sometimes controversial part in crafting last week's treaty on intermediate- range nuclear forces (INF). He was chairman of the high-level American "working group" on arms control during the summit. And he is embroiled in a fierce struggle to bring about a much more ambitious strategic-arms agreement next year...
Centrist Republicans, however, regarded Nitze -- a Democrat since 1952 -- as an asset to bipartisan foreign policy. In 1969 Nixon personally asked Nitze to help launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He played a key part in negotiating the SALT I treaty of 1972 and worked on SALT II until he resigned in 1974, accusing Nixon of making too many concessions for the sake of an agreement that might save his embattled presidency from the effects of the Watergate scandal...
...scenery rose up and revealed another set, the inside of the Silberius's house where son Fritz and daughter Clara were bobbing ridiculously in front of the key hole. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth; the music was unfamiliar and still no tree...
...says. "I thought, 'Oh my God, it's so awful.' But you get kind of used to it." Amy admits that "being a policeman...or maybe a detective" would be a much harder job. And like a policeman (or maybe a detective), the key to emotional survival is professionalism. "I hate to say it, but you try not to think about people's lives and things...
Although the leaders were short on specifics, one goal clearly was to diminish the influence of a key OAS member that was not invited to the parley: the U.S. Among other things, the so-called Group of Eight appeared to challenge Washington directly by suggesting that Cuba, which has been excluded for the past 25 years, should now be permitted to participate...