Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In marked contrast to the 1967 war, both Moscow and Washington initially went out of their way to avoid confrontation. The Russians did not assert that Israel had fired the first shot in the renewed fighting. Although they excoriated Israel as the aggressor in a general sense and, of course...
That, of course, does not mean that the Soviets will ultimately give them back. But the communique marked the first time that the Kremlin had even admitted that they were a subject for discussion. For Tanaka, the concession, however small, resembled a life buoy. Not only had his Soviet visit...
The setting for most of the new installment is Venice-Thomas Mann's Venice as well as, say, Casanova's-where Jenkins and the other major characters have assembled for an international conference. For the moment they are living like kings in sinking palazzi, but Jenkins reflects that...
The meeting marked the Committee's fifteenth anniversary and was attended by representatives of the University of Chicago, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Harvard, as well as officials from several leading American corporations.
Until recently the developers went largely unchecked. This was in marked contrast to the situation in a number of other cities, notably San Francisco and San Diego, that have passed laws to limit development. Cambridge could do as much.