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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conventional-arms reductions that Gorbachev proposed are striking enough: hundreds of thousands of troops on each side and, by Moscow's arithmetic -- which does not come close to agreeing with NATO figures -- slashes of about two-thirds in the number of Warsaw Pact tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces. After the reductions, which would be much heavier on the Soviet than the U.S. side, NATO and Warsaw Pact troops and weaponry would supposedly be equalized by 1996-97 at a level a bit below that now fielded by NATO. Still, Gorbachev essentially only filled in the details on a proposal...
Last summer Toyko's Meiji Gakuin University found a solution. For $2.4 million it bought Tennessee Military Institute, a defunct boarding school in / Sweetwater, and spent $2 million restoring the property. The site was no accident: a large number of the 7,696 Japanese-affiliated firms in the U.S. are east of the Mississippi River, and almost 60 are in Tennessee...
...inaugural address, Caperton stunned the legislature by calling it into emergency session, declaring West Virginia to be "in crisis." During his first three months he has managed to reduce the number of state offices and commissions from 150 to seven. Confronted by a $230 million deficit and a scandalous $280 million loss in state pension funds, he persuaded lawmakers to raise taxes on groceries and gasoline. He introduced an innovative health- cost-containment plan for state employees, arranged for payment of West Virginia's debts and put through his own radical restructuring of the state's education system, including larger...
...Beloved is dedicated to the 60 million who died as a result of slavery. A staggering number -- is this proved historically...
...Some historians told me 200 million died. The smallest number I got from anybody was 60 million. There were travel accounts of people who were in the Congo -- that's a wide river -- saying, "We could not get the boat through the river, it was choked with bodies." That's like a logjam. A lot of people died. Half of them died in those ships...