Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal was close to being struck two weeks ago, when Senator Edward Kennedy entered the picture. Having remained neutral throughout the primaries, Kennedy telephoned Mondale with an offer to fly to Minnesota and announce his backing. Mondale invited Kennedy to spend Sunday night at his home in North Oaks. Just before boarding a jetliner at Boston's Logan International Airport, Kennedy called Hart from a VIP lounge to review the Coloradan's bargaining position, making notes on a yellow legal pad. After arriving in North Oaks, Kennedy urged his host to compromise on a couple of unresolved points...
...news. Gannett hopes that USA Today will become the definitive newspaper of the television generation. Unlike big city dailies that have reacted to TV competition by becoming detailed and analytic, emphasizing the things TV cannot do, USA Today offers a print version of TV news. Stories are short and neutral, and often lead, TV style, with the outlook rather than the hard facts. The paper's appeal is strongly visual: it relies heavily on pictures, charts and other graphics. Like local newscasts, USA Today stresses human interest and the pocketbook impact of events. The major difference from...
...convention, Kerry is expected to remain in front because he has high name recognition. He ran a successful statewide race for lieutenant governor in 1982--even after losing the party's endorsement--and he is positively identified with the popular administration of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, an officially neutral observer in this race...
...gulf. The Reagan Administration is prepared to extend air and naval cover to other vessels if the tanker war should worsen. Under the plan, the U.S. would establish a sort of naval cordon sanitaire along the western channel of the gulf, through which ships from nonbelligerent nations destined for neutral ports would be escorted. No ships carrying arms or supplies for the warring countries would be included...
...guerrilla leader was taken to the city's most exclusive hospital. His men immediately turned Pastora's floor of the Clinica Biblica into a fortress, sealing off elevators and stationing heavily armed guards in the stairwells. Costa Rican authorities, anxious about their country's neutral status, placed Pastora in government custody; on Friday he was flown on a stretcher to Venezuela...