Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politics in what we are doing," says Frederick Machmer, U.S. AID chief in Addis Ababa, "it is the fact that the U.S. public would be very angry if we didn't give food aid to the Ethiopians." To Brother Gus, an Irish missionary who works in Addis Ababa, the matter is simple. "If you can stomach thousands of children dying for lack of food because you don't like the government, that is your problem," he says. "My problem is to try to feed them all, children, the parents, the aged, the young, wherever they...
...aunt's funeral--for the third or fourth time--the night before a midterm. I could even have written about doing some good work and being happy with it. All these things are part of just about everyone's undergraduate career here, and all of them do matter...
Customers are a different matter. "Dealing with customers is a problem in itself. They all have their ideas and they want to tell you how to run an alley. Anyone who has to deal with the public has got it damn tough." League players "get upset when you put open bowlers next to them." And open bowlers steal shoes...
...Americans had now seen Gorbachev delink and relink INF and SDI so often that they calculated it was only a matter of time before he delinked yet again. Moreover, it was increasingly clear that he was determined to eliminate American missiles in Europe...
...stripped-down deployment of cruise missiles to counter a residual force of SS-20s. Cruise missiles fly subsonically at low altitudes and are vulnerable to enemy air defenses. The Pershing II ballistic missiles arc to the edge of space and can strike targets inside western Russia in a matter of minutes. The deal was repudiated by both men's home offices. It was shot down in Washington (particularly by Perle) because it meant giving up the Pershing II, and in Moscow because it meant allowing even a few U.S. cruise missiles in Europe...