Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising that their fourth summit revolved around the ceremonial events rather than the one-on-one Reagan-Gorbachev meetings. With the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty ratified, the potential Strategic Arms Reduction Talks treaty bogged down and the Soviets pulling out of Afghanistan, there was not much top-level business to transact -- or at least not much that could get transacted given the constraints. Aides dutifully produced seven agreements, a procedure that has become de rigueur for summits lest they be popularly judged failures. But the agreements mostly concerned such minor matters as nuclear-testing procedures, fishing rights and exchanges...
...intensity is reflected in the audience, which, unusual for Broadway, is more than 80% black. Black churches, civic groups and schools have bought blocks of tickets, swelling the theater with revival-level enthusiasm. "There's a family bond," explains Charnele Dozier Brown, the only American in the cast. During a recent matinee the spectators laughed, stomped, clapped and cried along with the musical's emotional tide. They lifted their voices to the anthem Freedom Is Coming Tomorrow. "You can relate to it," said Gloria Brown, a Newark cafeteria worker. Too much time has passed since the children of Sarafina! have...
...impending Dalton decision on whether to sue and the Jackson case come at a time when other universities are facing more discrimination suits, Gertner said. She said the suits are the product of the decreasing number of senior-level openings for the women and minorities hired after the first wave of anti-discrimination hiring laws...
...intense on the ice. We lose it on the ice," Sweeney says. "Sure, Jerry might hit a little bit more than I do, I may skate a little bit more than he does. But we both enjoy those aspects of the game. It may seem on a first basis level that we have contrasting styles, but we're not that contrasting...
Before courtroom testimony had been completed this spring, Judge Garrity dismissed Walters' charges against the two supervisors--to whom she had initially complained--ruling that the supervisors' conduct "does not rise to the level of outrageous and extreme conduct which is required for the liability of individuals...