Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief of the Soviet military machine will be rubbernecking all over the U.S. next week, but hardly as a typical sightseer. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev will be treated to a look at some of the Pentagon's crown jewels, including the newly commissioned nuclear aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and a B-1 bomber...
...stand does not deter Rogers, the son of a machinist and assembly-line worker. Designing strategy in his Manhattan office, often dressed in a T shirt and jeans, he hardly looks imposing. But he can marshal large forces as effectively as many a general. Rogers has sent carloads of United Paperworkers -- "caravans" he calls them -- to gather support at the plants and union halls of other industries. The response has been encouraging: in April more than 8,500 sympathizers from unions around the U.S. converged for a rally at the Jay mill, roughly doubling the town's population...
...state dinner Monday night, a civilian aide to Gorbachev buttonholed Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the chief of the Soviet General Staff. The General Secretary was eager for a START treaty this year, before the U.S. went through what the Soviets regard as the temporarily paralyzing and perennially mystifying process whereby it changes its leadership. Why not put the SLCM issue aside for the moment so that START can go forward? "Nyet!" boomed the marshal...
...speech this fall at the Kennedy School of Government, which, University Marshal Hunt notes, favorably impressed those involved in selecting the Commencement speaker, Arias made a direct connection between Costa Rica's unique history and his efforts on behalf of peace...
...First Class Marshal stresses that she has had no trouble fitting in at Harvard and at Radcliffe. "Being a Black female, I have another connection, the sisterhood of Radcliffe," she says. "The fact that this is our common denominator, I feel a sense of camaraderie...