Word: properly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iranian President Ali Khamenei, appearing at the United Nations, described the American account as a "pack of lies" and declared: "The U.S. shall receive a proper response for this abominable...
...that the station violates only the "letter of the treaty -- not its purpose." Frank Gaffney, acting Assistant Secretary of Defense, insisted that the radar is a "significant military project which fundamentally undercuts the ABM treaty." If the Soviets want to convey a new openness on verification, said Gaffney, the proper signal would be the "total dismantling of the illegal installation...
...talk of a Reagan Revolution, for all the President's personal popularity and success in changing tax and spending policies, the social agenda of the New Right has remained largely unfulfilled. When he nominated Bork, Reagan said that the judge "shares my view" of the proper role of the court...
...land of outsize heroes and villains yet comment ironically on the unhappy state of a land that needs them. The tone must be grandly facetious to accommodate believers as well as skeptics. William Goldman tried all this in his 1973 novel The Princess Bride. His narrative had all the proper ingredients and all the right new moves: he deconstructed his text and undercut it with the cadences of a Borscht Belt raconteur. But on the page, Goldman's wordplay seemed too much of a jape. It needed the expanse of cinema -- where on the late show Errol Flynn and Gunga...
...were reporting to the Canadian air-traffic center at Gander, Newfoundland. Their close call came in clear weather at about the halfway point in their crossing. The Delta airliner drifted south of its course and passed just under the Continental plane, which was on its proper track. According to the NTSB, which is cooperating in the investigation with the Canadian Aviation Safety Board, the Delta crew had not been supplied with oceanic charts to display the coordinates of their assigned flight path. As a result, the crew "did not plot their present or predicted positions upon crossing waypoints...