Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played the austere, ironic butler in Arthur, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx...
...finally arrived last week for the Washington Public Power Supply System. D for default. D for debacle. With its coffers almost empty, WPPSS or Whoops, as everyone now calls the agency, formally declared that it could not repay $2.25 billion in bonds used to finance partial construction of two now abandoned nuclear power plants in Washington State. It is by far the largest municipal bond default in U.S. history, and the damage is incalculable. The fiasco has robbed thousands of investors of their savings, shaken confidence in the municipal bond market, angered and humiliated the people of the Northwest, tarnished...
...agreement helps soothe the jangled nerves caused by U.S. policies during the past few years on sales to the Soviet Union. In 1980 the Carter Administration imposed a partial embargo on such sales in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviets responded by lining up other suppliers, including Argentina, Canada, the European Community and Australia. Result: the embargo was almost ineffective and cut the U.S. out of sales just when Soviet demands were surging. During the past twelve months those sources supplied 80% of Moscow's import needs. Before the embargo, the U.S. provided 70% of Soviet...
...back as the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan pledged to keep international politics out of the grain trade. It was a hard promise to fulfill. Under pressure from U.S. farmers, he removed the partial embargo in April 1981. But that December, the White House saw the imposition of martial law in Poland as reason enough to bar grain negotiations with the Soviets. This April, though martial law was still in effect, the President gave the green light to begin the negotiations that resulted in the grain deal. Last week's successful talks coincided with another sign that Washington is ready...
...helicopter pilot who flew a solitary mission over Port Stanley, a wounded commando who stayed behind to cover a comrade's escape. By contrast, Argentine forces are generally, and perhaps unfairly, depicted as inept and their leaders as divided and squabbling. Yet if Hastings and Jenkins are partial to the home team, they can also be critical: of the Royal Navy's tendency to act without consulting its sister services, of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's inability to avoid hostilities in the first place. The authors do, however, applaud the Prime Minister's Churchillian tenacity once...