Word: reach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideologues who opposed bargains with the "evil empire." Only under pressure from across the Atlantic did the Reagan Administration enter talks with the Soviets on intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Similarly, when the Administration began a new round of strategic arms talks, the aim was not so much to reach an agreement with Moscow as to outflank the nuclear-freeze movement in the U.S. and to shore up congressional support for an array of new American weapons...
...hardcover and paperback imprints. To increase their chances of making a profit, they often insist, with authors ranging from Paul Kennedy to Stephen King, on acquiring the right to print properties in both forms. As another type of economic protection, book companies are taking advantage of their growing international reach by more often asking for foreign rights to a book...
...bloody denouement of the demonstrations seemed to be the direct result of Deng's attempts to retain the upper hand in a protracted power struggle among China's leaders. The disarray was signaled by the failure in recent weeks of party elders to reach consensus on the formal ouster of party chief Zhao Ziyang, who had lost favor because he sympathized with the student protesters. Within the party rank and file, the hard-liners' attempts to brand Zhao a counterrevolutionary had met with silent resistance and even mutters of bu dui (not correct...
...Drastically speed up the negotiating process. Bush would chop five years off the proposed Soviet time-table. Moscow had been talking of completing conventional-force reductions only by 1997. Instead, Bush wants to reach an agreement in six months or a year and start the withdrawals...
...years since the Watergate scandal, repeated efforts at reform have failed because they do not reach the systemic problem. Public officials are now required to file endless financial-disclosure reports, limit the private contributions they accept and wait longer and longer periods of time before they are allowed to lobby their former colleagues. But disclosure works for Congress only if constituents have the opportunity to pore through the voluminous reports and then vote based on what they find there. This welter of regulations has done almost nothing to choke off the cash flow...