Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be hell being Irving Berlin," a music publisher once lamented. "The poor guy's his own toughest competition." Few could match his output: more than 800 published songs and almost as many unpublished. Nor could they equal his business acumen. Fiercely protective of the copyrights to his songs, he helped establish the principle that every performance of a composer's work deserved a royalty. At the end, the boy from Cherry Street was worth millions...
Both men displayed a willingness to yield on demands that once seemed immutable. Cristiani abandoned the government's requirement that the guerrillas lay down their arms as a prerequisite to serious negotiations. While insisting that the rebels must eventually surrender their weapons, he said it was "not necessarily a first step." The President, whose rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) has strong links to El Salvador's armed forces, also offered publicly for the first time to consider a drastic reduction in military manpower. If the talks succeed, he said, "there would be a demobilization of the armed forces...
Such forthrightness will be essential if the two sides are going to settle their monumental differences. Before there can be an election in which both sides will agree to participate, for instance, there must be a permanent cease-fire. In mid-September the F.M.L.N. announced an eleven-day unilateral truce, but Cristiani claims that the rebels have not honored it. Said he: "They're still attacking our forces and using ((land)) mines...
...intrigue negotiators. His letter was a grab bag of proposals covering the whole gamut of arms control. All told, they suggested not just Soviet cooperation but an extraordinary readiness to compromise to give stalled arms negotiations fresh momentum. Standout example: Moscow withdrew its insistence that curbs on space weapons must be linked to slashes in the number of long-range nuclear missiles...
...trunk for two tennis rackets and one can of balls. Is it a yupmobile? A delicate question, but the answer is not really. Yuppies lack a sense of nonsense. They buy BMW or Saab Turbo convertibles, ragtop versions of sedans that are irreproachably expensive and slightly stodgy. If you must pick up your elderly aunt, her Doberman and her scuba gear at the airport, you can manage it in one of these. In the Miata...