Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While wary of the Soviets, who have 52 divisions on their northern border, the Chinese made it clear that they wanted a neutral role with the superpowers. (The Soviet news agency TASS was apparently unconvinced; it rapped the Chinese for condoning Reagan's "militarist course.") Reagan did his best to draw the Chinese closer, while acknowledging that he did not expect the "friendship" between the two countries to blossom into an "alliance." Chinese Communists are more to his liking than Soviet ones, Reagan said, because they are not "expansionist" and are willing to experiment with capitalism...
...light and air. The view through the glass as one mounts and descends can only sharpen the pleasurable contrast between nature and culture that was the point of Philip Johnson's original garden design. The escalator bank is Pelli's mam flourish. The galleries themselves are neutral, not Architecture with...
...show's most serious flaw is the congenital problem of many docudramas dealing with controversial events: a dogged inscrutability. Remaining neutral on the issue of Hiss's guilt, the show presents a mass of incidents-some important, some irrelevant, some canceling others out-that are engrossing from moment to moment. But the end result is a sort of dramatic entropy that can be frustrating...
...Even neutral Rent Control Board Executive Director Roger Mervis conceded last week that tenants, through their lobbying group the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition, view a vote for HRE as "a paradigm for all the ills and shortcomings of the rent control policy...
...Class Gift, the members discovered, is in no way under the auspices of students, but of Holyoke Center. The Class Committee then wrote up a neutral informational letter, explaining to seniors that both E4D and the Class gift would be soliciting this spring. The original draft, however, called E4D a "gift, a technical term that university officials refused to print on official Harvard Senior Class Committee stationary (though they said the Class Committee could do so on stationary the Committee pays for itself). Although the word is not significant, the incident reveals the repeated misrepresentation of E4D by Harvard. Central...