Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, there was cause to worry that the cease-fire scheduled for Nov. 7 would not hold. Since the signing of the Guatemala accord, the five Presidents have had little direct contact. The first meeting of the group's foreign ministers ended in chaos, and the second, held last week...
It is the INF treaty, however, that has become the touchstone of whether the U.S. and Soviet Union can summon the political will to begin reversing the arms race. Since 1981, when Reagan first proposed what eventually became known as the zero-zero option (meaning simply dismantling all intermediate-range...
Even as the Reagan Administration, represented by Secretary of State George Shultz, was concluding a successful series of talks with the Soviets, the Reagan Administration, represented by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, was preparing to accelerate a program that the Soviets consider a major obstacle to arms control. Weinberger has decided...
Bork has acknowledged that the precise (and sometimes imprecise) language of the Constitution cannot always be treated as the last word on its meaning. New conditions arise that may require the application of constitutional principles in ways the framers did not foresee. But he insists that the role of judges...
But the dichotomies are no mere zero-sum stalemate, sensibility vs. sensibility ad infinitum. There is meaning to this madness. Masterly, highly original work is being produced by designers of all kinds. Arata Isozaki's Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is one of the most fetching new buildings...