Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about this: long-haired hippie from working-class family in ancient Palestine (salt of the earth dad, saintly mom) falls in with tough crowd of longshoremen, starts proletarian pacifist movement and gets offed by protofascist pigs from Rome...
...many cups. Water could be replenished faster, although this is not a kitchen for especial fire in the spicing. Blessedly, there is no music. Decor is minimal, which only shows off the Ta Chien work to better effect. The best of the fortune cookies tells us, "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food." Is this subtle criticism of gossip journalism...
When Reagan met with Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, Nitze headed the U.S. delegation in an all-night negotiating session. It produced important breakthroughs in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), the Reagan Administration's attempt to improve on the much maligned SALT process. The encounter was, says Nitze, "one of the most exciting experiences of my life -- and potentially one of the most productive." Nitze believes a START agreement may be possible, perhaps in time to be signed at a Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Moscow next year -- but only if the U.S. is willing to accept some limits...
Last week a Salt Lake City jury ordered the Seven-Up Co. and a local bottler to pay $10.5 million in damages to Roberts, 82, who is legally blind in her injured eye. A lawyer for Seven-Up said the company would appeal because Roberts used the wrench to twist the cap in the wrong direction...
...number of nuclear weapons on both sides, Reagan believes he has repudiated the flawed policies of his predecessors. Many of the claims he made in his televised speech Thursday night were overstated: the INF treaty is not the first to require reductions in the number of nuclear weapons (SALT II provided for limited cuts), the summit did not represent a victory for his SDI program, and he was not able to make human rights or regional issues anything more than a sideshow to the business of arms control...