Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both leaders said they would meet again next year in the United States, and expressed the hope--but not the certainty--they would be able to sign historic agreements in 1990 to cut long range nuclear weapons and conventional forces in Europe and make progress toward a chemical weapons...
...skill and resolve of Hraoui and his ministers in creating a government even before Moawad was buried is a hopeful sign and shows the depth of Lebanon's yearning for peace. But Aoun will have to put aside his dream of ejecting the Syrians if Lebanon is to avoid disintegrating further into the anarchy sought by Moawad's killers. If Aoun does not, life in the country will soon resemble life in Thomas Hobbes' state of nature: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short...
...sent the President a final 1990 budget bill lopping $14.7 billion off the deficit -- thanks, of course, to gimmicks and a $5.6 billion increase in what people outside the Washington Beltway usually call taxes. Without a murmur of protest or the slightest hint of a blush, Bush agreed to sign the measure into...
Luckily for Deighton, there is no sign of change in his narrative's other engine of mischief, the mole-ridden, class-clotted English intelligence apparatus. A considerable part of the fun of the author's nearly endless chronicle has always been his seething contempt, and Samson's, for England's upper-class bumblers, and for Oxbridge leftists of the Kim Philby stamp. Readers who have followed Samson from Berlin Game will recall that his very upper-class wife Fiona, also an English intelligence agent, defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less...
...Marjorie Clapprood (D-Sharon) a candidate for lieutenant governor and a vocal supporter of higher taxes, said the capital gains vote was "a bad sign" for the entire tax package...