Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with the decadent freedom of Harvard life. Unsure how to act, they try to behave they way they think everyone else does, and, invariably, they overshoot the mark. The result is otherwise innocuous-looking people leaning over at the dinner table and asking you to "pass the fucking salt...
...Flames will keep two net-minders and send two to each of their minor league clubs. Both Blair and Dadswell are certainly hoping for a chance to play in Moncton, New Brunswick in the American Hockey League--and hoping to avoid a trip to Salt Lake City of the lowly International Hockey League...
...might be a bit timid for these turbulent times. Seeking to become a force in the West, the carrier announced that it was buying Los Angeles-based Western Air Lines for $860 million. If approved by the Department of Transportation, the deal would give Delta two new hubs, in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The combined carrier would haul some 50 million passengers annually, making it the nation's third largest airline after United and American...
...American U-2 plane was downed near Sverdlovsk, and Nikita Khrushchev stormed out of a summit meeting with Dwight Eisenhower in Paris. In August 1968, just as Lyndon Johnson and the Kremlin leaders were preparing to launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia and SALT was postponed. In December 1979 the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan virtually guaranteed that the U.S. Senate would not ratify the SALT II treaty. In September 1983 Soviet air-defense units shot down a Korean passenger plane, prompting Secretary of State George Shultz to throttle back his effort to re- engage...
...delay -- intentional or not -- looked remarkably like a custom-made face-saving device. It will allow the President to avoid violating the SALT II ceilings without requiring him to repudiate his earlier vow to forge ahead with missile deployment. The delay, unconfirmed by the White House, might not be a gambit at all. But news of the delay spilled to the public at a time when the superpowers seemed to have reached an impasse in pre-summit talks. The U.S. wants to discuss "regional issues," like Soviet policy toward Afghanistan, Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East...