Word: means
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that I mean a Boeing 747 is not state-of-the-art in anything--NASA does things that are much more fancy. But if you've got something that has to fly every day and carry hundreds and hundreds of passengers, it's almost always going to have proven technology that is somewhat older than what someone could imagine today," he adds...
...major foreign policy issues. While in his three previous speeches he had voiced stern warnings against being taken in by Soviet peace talk, Bush now praised Gorbachev for "being forthcoming" in negotiations on conventional forces in Europe. He emphasized that "our policy is to seize every -- and I mean every -- opportunity to build a better, more stable relationship with the Soviet Union...
...barred from Britain apparently helped rouse Hong Kong's slumbering political spirit last week. In an emotional declaration, Frances Hung, a 24-year-old secretary who braved a typhoon to participate in a march, asserted, "I am a Chinese British subject with a British passport, but what does that mean? Nothing. I cannot leave Hong Kong. The people in Tiananmen Square are my brothers and sisters. They have the same blood as I do. I am Chinese." The unaccustomed outpouring of emotion left many demonstrators teary-eyed. Even the colony's upper crust showed its support by allowing a racetrack...
...Hungary the two wings of the Communist Party are fighting over whether upcoming multiparty elections mean the Communists will be voted out of power in six years (the hard-line position) or sooner (the moderate position...
...days when The Enemy looked the part), I am a cold warrior who does not mourn the passing of the great twilight struggle. The cold war made thinking simpler in a "four legs good, two legs bad" (the Animal Farm axiom) sort of way. But simpler doesn't mean better. There could be no happier outcome for the cold war than for us to win it and for old cold warriors to face the invigorating challenge of rethinking from the ground up what America's role in the world, if any, ought...