Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets grew impatient with the slow pace of the negotiations in Geneva, so in the summer of 1986 they proposed higher-level talks. Paul Nitze, a State Department official and the Administration's elder statesman of arms control, led an American team that included Perle, Kampelman and others. Two sessions were held, in Moscow in August and in Washington in September. Both sides moved closer on details of a possible START agreement, but there was no progress...
...took negotiations at the highest level of all to assemble these pieces into the makings of an agreement. Reagan and Gorbachev met in Reykjavik in October 1986 for one of the most bizarre encounters in the history of diplomacy. The Soviets lured the Americans to the meeting on the pretext of putting the finishing touches on a separate INF deal. When Reagan arrived, Gorbachev surprised him with a comprehensive package not just on INF, but on START and SDI as well...
...decision prompted loud groans from the American Medical Association, which saw it as a threat to peer review. Though the A.M.A. admits the procedure may have gone awry in Patrick's case, it would have preferred a resolution at the state level rather than through federal antitrust laws. Antitrust damages are especially painful because they come out of a doctor's own pocket, notes A.M.A. General Counsel Kirk Johnson. "Antitrust is the atom bomb of lawsuits...
...bees, which U.S. officials say have proceeded no farther northward than central Mexico. But the Texans' growing unease is understandable: unless the bees are headed off or at least slowed down, they may reach the Texas border as early as next year. Mexican and American scientists are doing their level best to keep that from occurring. Near the narrowest part of southern Mexico, where the rugged Sierra Madre sweeps close to the coast, they have prepared a stand against the marauders, a kind of apiarian Thermopylae...
...reach the brain -- twice as fast as intravenous drugs and three times faster than alcohol. Once there, it mimics some of the actions of adrenaline, a hormone, and acetylcholine, a powerful neurotransmitter that touches off the brain's alarm system, among other things. After a few puffs, the level of nicotine in the blood skyrockets, the heart beats faster and blood pressure increases. Result: smokers become more alert and may actually even think faster. In addition, nicotine may produce a calming effect by triggering the release of natural opiates called beta-endorphins. Thus a smoker literally commands two states...