Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey, who conveys his impressions of the conference in this week's "Presidency" column, found lowered spirits and expectations in Vienna, a marked contrast to the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit he covered there in 1961. "Kennedy flew to Vienna with authority and respect," he recalls. "His...
Last to arrive in Vienna was the summit's centerpiece, the 78-page SALT II treaty. Its remaining details were still being negotiated for most of the week in Geneva by teams of U.S. and Soviet diplomats. The final issue was minor, and the butt of much diplomatic banter. The...
At the least, the $5 subsidy is destined to set off a whole new surge in the price of the fuel, which in some parts of the U.S. has jumped by more than 30% since last autumn. When news of the subsidy reached Rotterdam, dealers marked up their quoted prices...
White House economic advisers tirelessly insist that the guidelines can still be made to work through the force of public opinion. Though Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal agreed that the guidelines would have to be "reviewed and updated," there are marked differ- ences within the Administration on short-term anti-inflation...
Stalin's own dotage and death in 1953 were marked by a macabre irony. His last purge was to have been a mammoth pogrom. The pretext was the spurious charge that the Kremlin doctors, most of them Jews, were poisoning political luminaries in their care. In his terminal paranoia...