Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passing of romantic love [Sept. 26] is probably a good sign if it means more emphasis on making conjugal love work. But that takes a lot more depth of commitment to a person than many people are capable of. Maybe the illusion of romantic love is the only element that brings out any emotional investment in another person. In that case, let's keep it around. It may be the only way two people can believe they care about each other...
WALKING THE STREETS on a rainy Sunday night in October, everyone but you is taking care of business, old overcoats collars-turned-up, fedora brims turned-down-against-the-weather because only the rich junkies can score out of the rain stand beneath a blue neon sign that says Police Station #4, in a parka, soaking up the wet like a DuPont Cellulose sponge. Inside, the good guys are drinking coffee and munching doughnuts as you call a taxi...
Representatives of 35 nations gathered in Finland more than two years ago to sign a document that unexpectedly ignited human hopes across the Continent. But human rights activism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe sparked by the Helsinki accord threatened to undo years of work toward East-West detente. Thus when a svelte Swedish woman delegate, two priests from the Vatican, a mustachioed Spaniard and some 400 other delegates to the Belgrade meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation congregated in the corridors of starkly modern Sava Conference Center last week, much more was involved than a club...
That stemmed the tide-but only briefly. Then, after Nashua and Ricoh officials held a meeting, Nashua announced that it did not expect an interruption in the shipments of the Japanese machines. Some traders interpreted this as a sign that there were uncertainties about deliveries-else why would there have been a meeting?-and still more selling hit Nashua and Savin...
...night's Padres-Astros game than with issues that affect their lives. There is nothing wrong with the sports themselves, but the degree of devotion given them seems meaningless when compared to the exigencies of more temporal problems. In this land of conspicuous consumption, professional sports are a leading sign of decadence...