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...long. Two weeks later Kvitsinsky was contradicted by Gorbachev himself. The Soviet leader again showed his penchant for going over everyone's head -- this time directly to influential American liberals. On Feb. 6, during a conversation with visiting Senator Edward Kennedy, the Soviet leader said an interim INF deal, independent of START and SDI, might indeed be possible. Moreover, such an agreement could be signed at a summit in Washington later in the year...
...most likely could get the money elsewhere if this study is worthwhile. According to spokesmen, the CIA is not giving the researchers any special access. It is unfortunate that the University in its efforts to achieve a small victory for openness linked itself with a body that in its penchant for secrecy has corrupted its noble aim of helping to advance the interests of democracy...
...range conservationists. We've come to Albuquerque for an intensive six-day workshop on the holistic management of natural resources: land, water, livestock and wildlife. Savory's special genius is combining high-minded idealism with thoroughgoing practicality, and he has a nose for generating profit in the process. His penchant for common sense is constantly fired by an indignation at how we have neglected our lands. "Nobody seems to care," he says, "and all the remedies have fallen short...
...that old buildings had a level of craftsmanship and stylistic integrity seldom achieved in modern buildings and a patina that could not be faked. The upper classes had always prized antiques and reveled in the old. For the first time, the upwardly ambitious American middle class acquired that aristocratic penchant...
...starters, he slipped out of the market before the crash, protecting his fortune. But what really makes Goldsmith different is his love of luxury, coupled with a penchant for lecturing the world on everything from Communism to AIDS. "He' s sometimes downright reactionary," says a former associate. "But he is also ferociously anti- Establishment, right, left and center...