Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble began when U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and ten aides arrived at Taipei's Sung-Shan airport to discuss an inflammatory question: How to switch from official to unofficial relations with the newly derecognized government of Taiwan? The first sign of difficulties came when Vice Foreign Minister Frederick Ch'ien greeted the Americans before TV cameras with undisguised disgruntlement. "I meet you here at this time with a heavy and pained heart," he said. Turning to the ashen-faced and unsmiling Christopher, he added: "Your visit here should be the first step in your government...
...first sign of it, not much better than the original malaise, was "historicism,"-the rich, beautiful prose of corporate style, achieved with acres of white marble that somehow always ended up looking like plastic laminate. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art by William Pereira is an early Western example of the genre; its equivalent on the East Coast was Lincoln Center in Manhattan, a large, poor parody of Michelangelo's Campidoglio in Rome, designed by Wallace Harrison, Max Abramovitz and by Philip Johnson, whose building was the New York State Theater. All the historical allusions in this corporate style...
...over-the-counter preparations can indeed relieve some symptoms temporarily. So can hot baths and a change in diet and bowel habits. But doctors emphasize that whenever rectal bleeding occurs, there should be a prompt proctological examination; while hemorrhoids themselves are not life-threatening, such bleeding may be a sign of cancer or some other serious ailment. Happily, most hemorrhoid complaints can now be treated simply and almost painlessly in the doctor's office...
...ternout. If the bird book rises from the dictionary, Hamburger Madness by Jack Ziegler bounces off the wall. The New Yorker's resident screwball, Ziegler is famous for muses that beckon the writer away from his work and toward a bar, and a bank with a sign that reads TIME: 4:32. TODAY'S WEATHER: SHOES...
Begin said he, like Egyptian President Anwar Sadar, was ready to sign a peace treaty, but "there are problems." He would not elaborate about the nature of the problems...