Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minimum, the Soviets have suffered a devastating blow to their ability to pose as peace lovers eager for détente and disarmament. The brutality of their action seems to have shocked the world more than the invasion of Afghanistan and the repression in Poland, which were at least explicable as power politics...
With a few breaks and some quick stabilizing of the receiver corps and the secondary, Brown could pose a threat to the more viable title contenders--though not to November 5 opponent Penn State...
...affairs, says Collins, present an entirely new problem that goes beyond the old-fashioned one of a boss going to bed with his secretary. The new romances can pose difficulties for both men and women managers. When an affair eventually runs into trouble, the women executives have two reasons to be very, very angry. "Each woman had sacrificed a personal life for her career; now they seemed near to sacrificing their careers for threatened relationships." The men too face quandaries. Writes Collins: "Caught between loyalty to his subordinates and the woman he loves, the male executive begins to feel...
Upon recognizing me, the group's dominant silverback swiftly braked to a stop three feet away, causing the four males behind him, momentarily and ungracefully, to pile up on top of him. At this instant I slowly sank to the ground to assume as submissive a pose as possible. The hair on each male's head-crest stood erect . . . canines were fully exposed, the irises of ordinarily soft brown eyes glinted yellow-more like those of cats than of gorillas-and an overpowering fear odor permeated the air. For a good half-hour all five males screamed...
...formally denied TIME'S report (July 25) that American weapons were flowing from the U.S. to Iran in spite of a U.S. ban on such sales. But some congressional committees have taken an interest in the matter and intend to pose questions to the Administration about it after the summer recess. Coincidentally, federal agents in New York City concluded eight months of undercover investigation into illegal weapons exports last week. Eight men were charged with conspiring to sell more than $2 billion worth of weapons, including attack helicopters, rocket launchers, missiles, tanks and machine guns, to federal agents...