Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the 1985 Shamrock Summit in Quebec City without a U.S. commitment to help clean up acid rain. Though he managed last spring to get American agreement to discuss a free-trade treaty between the two countries, many Canadians feel that both he and his government have been too quick to knuckle under to the U.S. on matters such as lumber and steel exports. In short, they question whether Reagan, who will meet the Prime Minister in Ottawa in April, takes Mulroney seriously...
...blackjack dealer to pit boss at the Golden Nugget. "It's not a hard profession to break into," he explains. "All you have to do is count to 21." Among Williams' old college playmates, Eddie Owens is dealing at Caesars Palace and Sam Smith is valeting cars. Williams is quick to add that "at a hundred and a half a night, a lot of people would park cars. You can be a porter in this town and make...
...shooting pictures, users will take the entire camera to a photo lab for film processing. Kodak's Fling, which could be available by the summer, will sell for $6.95 and take 24 shots. It contains the 110 film used in Kodak's Instamatic cameras. Fuji will begin selling its Quick Snap this spring. It will cost less than $10 for 24 exposures and will use higher- quality 35-mm film...
...vast patchwork of nearly 100 nationalities, ranging from the European-minded Lithuanians to the Asian-oriented Kazakhs, who are of predominantly Muslim heritage. The Soviet Union is held together by a ramshackle, Russian-dominated central bureaucracy that is ever fearful that nationalist outbreaks could spread. Moscow was therefore quick to punish not only those who participated in the riots but the officials who failed to prevent them...
...fired last week, and Kunaev's brother Askar was ousted as president of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. The head of the republic's Communist youth organization has also been ousted. In addition, teachers are being reprimanded for not keeping students under control. But if the Kremlin was quick to punish, it was also quick to placate. The Politburo's Solomentsev paid highly publicized visits to stores, markets and housing complexes to hear citizens' complaints about food shortages and poor housing. "Before Dec. 18 there was nothing in the shops," said a Kazakh. "There were shortages of meat, milk, cheese...