Word: mends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan dined happily with his family on turkey, corn-bread dressing and mince pie at his Santa Barbara ranch, the frayed tempers and bruised feelings of congressional leaders also began to mend. On reflection, the great budget battle was probably as unnecessary as it was unseemly. The confrontation had centered on a matter of roughly $2 billion, a totally symbolic figure since it represented a mere .28% of the $700 billion budget for fiscal 1982, which is running $80 billion in the red. Not only will the $2 billion have to be fought over once again between...
While the Reagan Administration attempts to mend America's nuclear-power industry, such extensive repairs are not as yet necessary in other countries. From South Korea (one reactor) to the Soviet Union (23 reactors), the world is still looking more or less confidently to the atom for its electric power. Outside the U.S., 21 countries now have a total of 182 atomic-powered generating plants in operation, and another 138 plants are under construction...
...more military muscle in the region, it has been decidedly less willing, so far at least, to exercise its influence in a matter of equal importance: persuading Israel to work out an accord on Palestinian autonomy with Egypt. Enough progress on this issue might allow Mubarak to mend his ties with other moderate Arabs, especially the Saudis. If little or no progress is made, however, Mubarak will be under increasing pressure from his Arab neighbors to break Egypt's commitment to the Camp David accords, and to Israel and the U.S. as well...
First, there were some personal differences to mend: this was Kama's first meeting with Brezhnev since the Kremlin's June 5 letter blasting the Polish leader for being soft on "counterrevolution." Then Kania had some explanations to give about last month's party congress in Warsaw-an unprecedented session that democratized the party's structure and purged much of its leadership. Most urgent of all was what to do about the latest wave of strikes and demonstrations sparked by Poland's critical food shortage...
...mortal distress. He will lie there-at first in pain, later in death-for most of S. O. B. That is because it is his misfortune to have been taking his exercise in the world capital of self-absorption, the beach at Malibu, where movie people tend their tans, mend their deals and bend their minds with all sorts of curious additives. Dying is something that happens to your friend's act in Vegas or your rival's picture in Gotham. It is acceptable as metaphor, inconvenient as reality, something to be ignored in the hopes that...