Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, China had ample reason to respond positively to Soviet overtures. The lowering of tensions along the border has allowed Beijing to reduce the size of its army over the past three years from 4 million to 3 million. The extraordinary warming in U.S.-Soviet relations over the past four years also put pressure on the Chinese to make a parallel move. Says a senior State Department official in Washington: "They must respond to the vitality in the U.S.-Soviet relationship...
...That's what is called the organic fallacy: countries are not plants, they don't have life cycles that mean there is a time to die. There's no . reason we should be on a downward course...
...contribution to peace. It may be too early to hail a new era in Asia. But the good news is that an event that would have caused waves of concern from New Delhi to Washington only a few years ago will unfold this year in Beijing with much more reason for hope than fear...
...ended as a commercial illustrator; what lies between is the interesting stuff. He was an adroit draftsman but not a distinguished one. He soon overcame the influences of his early advertising days (Jean Cocteau and Ben Shahn), but the drawing is never more than efficient. Partly for this reason his freehand "studies" of soup cans or dollar bills never acquire the pressure of the silk-screened ones, but it is hard to see how they could: those coarsely nuanced rows of ready-mades, in taking Duchamp a small step further, remain the most eloquent comments on the standardization of mass...
...courses themselves, while others encourage colleges and universities to tailor them to the needs of career changers, who often cannot afford to forfeit full-time income. At the California State University at Dominguez Hills, one-half of the students at the Graduate School of Education are job switchers. One reason: the program provides salaried internships...