Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have been accelerating their acceptance of such verification procedures since the 1987 INF treaty, which eliminated intermediate- and short-range nuclear missiles, set up procedures for monitoring their destruction. Soviet inspectors have been present in the U.S. during the demolition of 326 missiles, and Americans have witnessed the destruction of 1,088 Soviet missiles. More than two dozen Americans stationed permanently in Votkinsk, west of the Urals, keep tabs on a plant that once built SS-20 missiles, and a similar number of Soviets in Magna, Utah, monitor what was formerly a Pershing engine plant. Michael Krepon, a Washington...
...Japan is increasingly forced to look outward, the short-term impact of this year's elections will be minimal. The upper house is weak under the Japanese system, and all of the day-to-day decision-making power in Japan rests with the bureaucracy, not elected officials...
...true housesitting emergency is when the owners call to tell you that they will be dropping in for a couple of hours that night when they are in town for a meeting. When they called, I had nine short hours to undo the damage I had done. I was going to reserve the two days before they came home to clean up everything--the coffee mug-stained tabletop, the disordered CD collection, the dirty master bathroom (no other bathroom...
...tenor of the meeting was that somehow Harvard was selling itself short, that the only purpose of this was to make money, that it was beneath Harvard to do this sort of thing," said Mckay Professor of Applied Mathematics Roger W. Brockett...
...apparent readiness to bless a peace initiative whose salient points are at best ambiguous is dismissed as derisively as its earlier recognition of Israel's right to exist. The majority of Israeli Jews scorn as naive the possibility that the Palestinians may finally have decided to "settle" for something short of everything. How could they?, asks Yitzhak Shamir; the central problem has never changed: "We think the land is ours, and they think it is theirs...