Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quickly sign an interim agreement locking in the latest Soviet proposals to cut NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery pieces to an equal level, bringing them slightly below those now fielded by NATO. As in all the reductions being considered in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) negotiations under way in Vienna, the reductions would be much deeper for the Warsaw Pact than for NATO...
...Charles J. Ogletree, a visiting professor at the Law School and a proponent of Clinical Legal Studies, announces he has accepted the school's offer of tenure. The decision, which makes Ogletree the school's fourth Black faculty member, is viewed as a sign of the school's continued commitment to the radical scholarly movement under newly-appointed Dean Robert C. Clark...
Since starting the service a few years ago, TRW has persuaded 600,000 cautious customers to sign up. But privacy experts point out that TRW is selling information that federal law requires it to provide for $2 to $15, depending on the state, or, if consumers have been denied credit in the past 30 days, for free...
...most of the week, contradictory signals emanated from a country whose secretive rulers prize political stability above all else. Perhaps the most curious sign involved the army. On Monday seven retired generals, including former Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, signed a letter to the party leadership demanding that the P.L.A. not be used to quell the uprising. "The army must absolutely not shoot the people," it read. Two days later, the military's Liberation Army Daily quoted a letter from the P.L.A. general staff (also dated Monday) urging troops to study carefully a speech by Li Peng denouncing the uprising...
...P.L.A. To the rebellious students and their supporters, Deng, the progenitor of reform, is now viewed as an autocratic and imperious obstacle to it. It must have been particularly galling that many of the demonstrators' abusive slogans echoed his own words. WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RETIRE? read one sign in the square, reflecting Deng's frequent statement that he cannot step down because the country needs...