Word: neighborly
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...dropped in on a neighbor, Astronomer Varkey Kallarakal, who helps man the Navy's 26-in. refracting telescope, and taken a long look at Saturn's rings...
...aims its message to the big television audiences and wastes little time on those who want to follow the fine print. Reagan obviously didn't invent the homely example: Remember how Roosevelt shrewdly argued for Lend-Lease to Britain, justifying it as lending a hose to a neighbor to put out a fire? Nor did Reagan invent the bite-size explanation of policy. Gergen, from his speechwriting days for Richard Nixon, remembers Nixon's insistence that press statements be less than 100 words long: "That way, Nixon said, he and not somebody else controlled how much of what...
...sign the 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty. The Reagan Administration agreed last week to let India buy the necessary fuel from France as long as negotiated safeguards and inspections are honored. In addition, Gandhi has been displeased by Washington's publicized tilt toward India's hostile neighbor Pakistan. The U.S. has offered arms and fighter jets to Pakistan in the wake of the Soviet Union's Afghanistan invasion...
...relations with Pakistan. I do not know how close they want to get. We have been anxious for friendship, not for any idealistic reason, but because it is a necessity for us. We want our neighbors to be stable and strong. Nothing is so dangerous as a weak neighbor. You just do not know what they will do. Throughout the years, we have taken all the initiatives. My father [Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister] offered a no-war pact in 1949, and in different forms the offer has been repeated. Then we signed the Simla Agreement...
...downriver states, Missouri and Nebraska. Others may join in. At the Midwest Governors meeting, which unanimously passed a resolution calling on Congress to leave the region's water riches under control of the states, Iowa Governor Robert Ray denounced South Dakota's action as a neighbor's breach of faith. Said he: "What bothers me most is not the amount [to be] diverted, which is comparatively small, but the precedent. Other concerned states should have a voice when water that would normally flow to us is diverted for projects that do not benefit us and are located...