Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underground hotels and shopping centers. In the meantime, citizens of Khabarovsk pour hot water for their tea not only from traditional Russian samovars but also from colorfully decorated thermos bottles imported from China. Plans are under way for a Chinese restaurant, staffed and supplied from across the river, to open later this year...
...simply that nobody thought it necessary to do so. The Navy is just not used to operating in the half-war, half-peace atmosphere of the gulf, where harmless passengers and deadly enemies all whizz through the same cramped airspace. The Aegis system is designed for the open seas, where Pentagon planners mistakenly thought that wars would be fought...
...trouble is that Rogers and his crew had no time to reflect on such considerations. A ship nowadays can easily be sunk by a missile delivered from a plane that no one on board ever sees. In the open ocean, a possibly hostile plane can be tracked over hundreds of miles. But Admiral William Crowe Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has likened combat in the Persian Gulf -- only about 25 miles wide at the narrowest point of the Strait of Hormuz -- to "fighting in a lake." A plane can reach a ship's missile range in minutes...
...Shakespeare's collective valedictory, are performed on much the same set by the same actors. The high point is Cymbeline, with its Spielbergian supernatural touches (ghosts appearing in dreams, Jupiter descending from the heavens) and robust battles. In one chilling scene, two panels of the back wall bang open to reveal opposing armies about to pour onto the stage. The most impressive coup de theatre, however, belongs to Star Tim Pigott-Smith, a specialist in complex villains. He invades the bedroom of a sleeping princess, robs and molests her while voicing a cascading confusion of emotions -- first pride, then shame...
...Salinas will have to navigate carefully between the demands of the P.R.I. old guard to maintain the party's hegemony and his own vision of a more democratic future. Throughout the campaign, there were indications that many P.R.I. stalwarts intended to fight any attempt by Salinas to open the system to a vigorous exchange of ideas. Much like the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Salinas knows that political liberalization is imperative if he is to succeed in restructuring a debt- ridden, slow-growth economy. But before Salinas can begin, he will have to convince Mexicans that the job is rightfully...