Word: skeining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foreign Affairs Committee, the full House of Representatives and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But last week Carter won the final set and with it the match-for the time being at least. The Senate voted 48 to 46 to allow the Administration to sell uranium to India. The skein of defeats and the closeness and bipartisan nature of the final vote in the Senate reflected the complexity of the issue, which involved a clash between principle and pragmatism over the way the U.S. should control the sale of nuclear materials abroad...
...misguided. The decline is being used to support a self-serving and self-defeating course. Indeed, the recent European attitude toward the Soviet Union has been so cautious as to verge on neutralism. The backdrop to the conflict between the U.S. and Europe is an old skein of misapprehensions and reproaches, failed hopes and even disappointed loves that can only be compared to an ancient family quarrel: tediously familiar, yet ever fresh in its capacity to wound. On both sides of the Atlantic, one regularly hears the ritual incantations about a joint cultural heritage. Yet America is, at most, only...