Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foosball table doesn't look like more than a miniature soccer field, with its two teams of 11 plastic or wood men attached to eight metal rods. But when there are four avid players gathered round, pushing, pulling and jamming the ball past the opposite team, the table might as well be of a world soccer championship...
...organizations and conferences is that Geneva has few peers in such conveniences as luxurious hotels (12,000 rooms in all), myriad telex lines and multilingual interpreters. Says a U.S. diplomat: "Geneva is an ideal place to talk. It has square rooms, long rooms, high- ceilinged rooms, rectangular tables, round tables and horseshoe-shaped tables. It has restaurants, great shops, beautiful mountains and a lake...
...will once again be formally seeking agreement on ways to control their destructive power. No miracles are expected: nuclear negotiations over the past 22 years have occasionally resulted in limits on future stockpiles, but never in deep reductions of current ones. Yet the U.S. is convinced that the new round of talks is not just necessary but urgent. Said Secretary of State George Shultz last week: "This may be the last time to really address some of these issues with any prospect of success...
...Europe. Moscow vowed that it would not resume the talks until Washington withdrew the offending weapons, even though the Soviets maintain a similar stockpile of their own. Later, increasingly alarmed by the Reagan Administration's deepening commitment to a space-based defense system, the Soviets proposed convening a separate round of talks aimed at controlling these weapons alone. The Soviets are more worried about strategic defenses than about new American offensive weapons like the MX. They already have in their arsenal counterparts to the MX, while an all-out competition in defensive systems would require vast new expenditures...
...advantage, lawyers maintain, is Disney's right from the time of the accident. Employees quickly summon supervisors and "security hosts" to round up witnesses and interview the injured, who are often their own worst enemies. Says Orlando Attorney John Overchuck: "It's your dignity that really is on the line, and God knows what you'll say at the time: 'I should have been looking where I was going. How stupid of me.' " Alert Disney staffers write it all down...