Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Two years ago, you could say that constructive engagement was an excuse for a stand-pat policy, a do-nothing policy," says Thompson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson. But he says the plan has allowed the U.S. to mediate the recent Southern African peace settlement, which ties the withdrawal...
In this instance nothing would be lost by showing more care. For the same reasons we have a "winter break" rather than a "Christmas holiday," the request that there not be a mindless 1950s dinner seems reasonable. Symbols do matter, if only because people take them seriously, need them to...
During the Atlanta convention, he had 20 telephone lines in his hotel suite. At least twice a day, he met with the Dukakis camp, using a three-page game plan he had hammered out with Jackson and his entourage during an all-night session in Nashville the Friday before the...
Berge also complained that Barenboim would be spending only a minimal four months a year at the Bastille. The conductor claimed he would spend at least seven months there and wondered aloud how much time Berge was planning to take off from Saint Laurent to work on opera. "When he...
As the Inauguration neared, Quayle evidently felt more confident. At the start of last week, he agreed to a round of TV, newspaper and magazine interviews. He was assigned by Bush to get his first taste of diplomacy on a visit to Venezuela and two to four other Latin American...