Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arms control was always something between a sham and a sideshow. The end of the cold war has proved it. The U.S.S.R. today has thousands more nuclear warheads than it did 10 years ago. Yet we feel far more secure today. Why? Because security never depended on numbers. It depended on intentions. Soviet intentions have changed, and the change had nothing at all to do with arms control...
...industry has a considerable stake in this sideshow. OS/2 was supposed to be a new standard, but its weak showing so far has left the field open. AT&T, for instance, is pushing its Unix operating system, and Apple Computer is promoting a program of its own. This week Apple will introduce an advanced version of the Macintosh operating system...
...that created the industry's hottest product of the 1980s is parting ways. IBM is developing its upgrade of OS/2, while Microsoft is making a separate version, setting up a competition for dominance in desktop computers, the most important segment of an important industry. "It's an interesting sideshow," says Gates. "But it will be the marketplace that decides the winner...
...that the collapse of the communist system and all its ripples through the client states rendered the Soviet leadership virtually helpless when Iraq invaded Kuwait. "There was no able leader comparable to Bush around," says one of the President's advisers. "Gorbachev for all his peace efforts was a sideshow. Margaret Thatcher was gone." The widespread notion that Bush would forever remain in the charismatic shadow of Ronald Reagan or be viewed as a foreign policy amateur compared with Richard Nixon has evaporated. It will probably never rise again...
...only relief in sight is that this sideshow will soon be overshadowed by the main event. On Oct. 22 the state will outline its case for the judge. At the last hearing the visitors' gallery was packed. Soon it will be the hottest ticket in town, and half the town should be speculating about who should play the various characters when the movie is made. Sean Penn as Lyle? Rob Lowe as Erik? But who should play Judalon Smyth and Oziel...