Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students could be hired to sit inside entryways and check I.D.'s--the same system used at the University of Pennsylvania. After a few days, the student would know the faces of all the residents, so I.D.'s would not have to be shown, and entry would not be inconvenienced. Visitors would have to be accompanied by their hosts, or verified by a phone call...
PARTING THE WATERS: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). The first half of a two-volume biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...
...much of the past year, candidates in both parties vied over who would be best able to "sit across the table from Gorbachev." Now the winner will have to do so sooner than he would have preferred. On issues where he may prove more flexible than Reagan -- such as the Strategic Defense Initiative and a compromise in Central America -- Bush does not want to seem to be breaking ( ranks before he is even inaugurated. Therefore the Vice President would rather have stayed in Washington this week, and he resisted the Soviets' request for a separate, one-on-one meeting...
Gorbachev knows that neither the lame-duck President nor the President-elect is in a position to transact much meaningful business. That will give the Soviet leader an ideal opportunity to float bold ideas, then sit back and watch as the two Americans respond tentatively, if not defensively...
...Soviet cruise missiles represent a far-reaching threat to the U.S. Half the American population and industrial capacity sit within 150 miles of the ocean coasts, where cruise missiles launched from Soviet submarines could strike quickly and unexpectedly. The U.S. has virtually no defense against such missiles, particularly when the Soviets also employ stealth technology. The threat is compounded by the difficulty in negotiating a cutback in cruises: they are so small and portable that their numbers would be almost impossible for either side to verify, and conventionally armed missiles cannot be distinguished from nuclear weapons...