Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting in Los Angeles between President Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. They agreed on the need to open the Japanese market to American-made electronics, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, along with forest products and telecommunications goods and services. This sector--or industry-wide--approach was a sharp shift from the previous goal of trying to gain entry on a product- by-product basis, a narrowly focused tactic that was getting nowhere. Says one official: "As soon as we knock down one clay pigeon, another pops up. We have got to knock them all down...
...regenerating. "I'll be tired, worn down from travel, or just sad and moody--I consider myself a moody person. But then the ball will go up, and all of a sudden I'm up too. It's wild." Gretzky, reaching that bracing elevation, can actually feel a shift in temperature. "When the play isn't so great, my hands are cold and my feet are freezing. But when it's really good, I can't get enough cold, it's so hot. And then I don't hear anything except the sound of the puck and the stick...
...supporters of the Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.) increasingly argue that a defense need not be perfect or even near perfect to be worth building. Their vision is of a system that would wipe out a high enough proportion of attacking warheads to shift the odds dramatically against a Soviet first strike's succeeding. According to this view, deterrence would not be transcended, as Reagan dreams, but it would be vastly strengthened...
...Courts began to narrow the definition of public figures. Chief Justice Warren Burger told trial judges, in a footnote to a 1979 opinion, that too many libel cases were being summarily dismissed--that is, rejected before going to trial. For journalists, the most nettlesome result of the court's shift in mood came in a ruling during the pretrial discovery phase of a suit brought by retired Army Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert, a former field officer in Viet Nam, against the producers of a report about him on the CBS News show 60 Minutes. The Supreme Court ruled...
...survey by the Libel Defense Resource Center of cases that resulted in large jury awards for damages shows that four of the ten biggest were brought by public officials, and dozens of suits are pending, at least 18 in Philadelphia alone. These plaintiffs may be responding to a perceived shift in public opinion against the news media, or to a general litigious impulse in our society, or to the publicity given to strikingly high jury damage awards. In part, the press has itself to blame: the multimillion-dollar awards in recent cases have commanded headlines, but the reversals or drastic...