Word: seismically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work next week. China promised it would sign onto the agreement after detonating a nuclear device at its Lop Nor facility in late July. The agreement had been held up by a dispute over authorization of on-site inspections in the case of a "suspicious" event, such as seismic readings indicative of a test. Wary of espionage, China wanted to require a two-thirds vote of a 51-nation commission to authorize an inspection, while the United States pushed for a simple majority. In a week and a half of secret negotiations, the two nations agreed to split the difference...
...work next week. China promised it would sign onto the agreement after detonating a nuclear device at its Lop Nor facility in late July. The agreement had been held up by a dispute over authorization of on-site inspections in the case of a "suspicious" event, such as seismic readings indicative of a test. Wary of espionage, China wanted to require a two-thirds vote of a 51-nation commission to authorize an inspection, while the United States pushed for a simple majority. In a week and a half of secret negotiations, the two nations agreed to split the difference...
...decades: Toni Morrison is a major American writer. But because she is an African-American woman, her importance to and impact on her times transcend the literary. Her example, both in her powerful novels and in her strong, imposing personality, has inspired a generation of black artists and produced seismic effects on publishing...
...countries boast an electorate as passionately political and committed to their views as Israel's. Most voters knew long before the campaign where they stood on the peace process, on Labor's path vs. Likud's. The election turned not on some seismic slide from left to right but on the choices made by the 6% to 7% of perennially undecided, known as the floating vote, who are swayed more by emotion than ideology. Netanyahu won because he better captured their cautious mood after the suicide-bomb slaughter of 59 men, women and children in a shattering Hamas rampage over...
With the announcement last week that Liggett, the smallest of the nation's five major cigarette makers, had agreed to settle the Castano class action in Louisiana on behalf of all smokers and five state Medicaid suits against cigarette makers, the landscape of tobacco litigation underwent a seismic shift. In real dollars, the terms of the agreement--Liggett will wind up paying less than $2 million a year over the next 25 years toward antismoking programs, and will comply with proposed Food and Drug Administration rules about marketing to children--have little bite. Any capitulation, however, marks a drastic change...