Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the first view of a rundown kitchen, complete with refrigerator and green plastic chairs, director R.J. Cutler and set designer Peter Sorger demonstrate a firm grasp of Shepard's hard realism. The Tates, a family of four, scrap endlessly about their unproductive farmstead and their dreary lives. Weston (Dean Norris), the alcoholic father, has just bashed in the front door after a night in the bars. His wife Ella (Nina Bernstein), who called the police to get rid of him, is having an affair with a slick town lawyer, and both husband and wife would like nothing more than...
White's article presents Mao as a devilish dictator who would kill millions to enhance his power. Mao is worse. He is in the same class as Hitler. The Chinese would be wise to scrap his thoughts entirely if they wish to achieve peace and move ahead economically. The U.S., on the other hand, would benefit from helping China to modernize. When China's economic standards reach those of the West, there is a chance that the Chinese may discard the Communist system and become a major force in the free world...
...women who work as lobbyists, legislative aides and journalists. They are nurtured, entertained, and often guided by trivial events and gossip. Many of the 15,000 lobbyists get paid on the basis of their access to White House staff and congressional leaders; every scrap of capital intelligence has outsize value to them. The Congress is now freighted with 20,000 employees, many of whom spend their time plotting how to help or thwart the Administration. The 15,000 Washington journalists feed off these 35,000 sources and frequently mistake their priorities for those of the country at large...
Officials of both Smith and Mt Holyoke colleges recently announced that they will scrap their year-old merit award programs...
...sides would have to reduce their weaponry by a more or less equal amount. Reagan's other ceiling, a cap of 2,500 on the number of land-based missile warheads, is not on the table as far as the Soviets are concerned. It would require them to scrap 57% of their 5,900 land-based missile warheads. The U.S., by contrast, currently deploys only 2,146 land-based missile warheads, and thus would be able to increase its ICBM " warhead inventory...