Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago (Viet Nam, Cuba). One top official, watching the angry Shultz-Gromyko meeting in Madrid after the airliner was shot down, saw all the elements of a classic diplomatic explosion and instant walkout. Yet something kept the two men talking. They feared for their images. In this skirmish, Gromyko faltered. He suggested to the world that his government would do it again, and the shock waves were visible on the faces of the world's reporters. They, in turn, conveyed their dismay to readers and listeners back home. But the Soviets could not run off and close...
...president of Apple Computer. He showed them new television commercials, answered questions and announced that this week the Lisa computer, which sells for $9,995, will have a new stripped-down price of $6,995. The price cut for the Lisa, introduced last January with much fanfare, marks another skirmish in the war between Apple (estimated 1983 sales: $1 billion) and IBM (estimated 1983 sales: $40 billion) for the personal-computer market...
...real problem is real estate. When the College grew in the '60s, it gobbled up neighborhoods and drove up the price of housing for everyone. There is not enough Cambridge for everyone who wants it. That was the war which the city should have fought. Now we can only skirmish over lots and individual buildings...
...medicine and equipment to crush a rebellion-cum-invasion there. It was the Carter Administration that promised to send an Army battalion to the Sinai peninsula to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces and encouraged the creation of a Rapid Deployment Force for quick dispatch to a possible Middle East skirmish; Reagan has simply executed those plans. Carter also resumed "nonlethal" military aid to El Salvador almost a year before Reagan took office, and approved an emergency shipment of arms to that country in the last days of his Administration...
...longer. The Soviets got a close look last week at Bonn's first Christian Democratic Chancellor after 13 years of Social Democratic rule, and they did not entirely like what they saw. Helmut Kohl's 48-hour visit to Moscow turned out to be a bruising diplomatic skirmish that started badly and ended, as Kohl fully expected, in a standoff. Under a barrage of Soviet threats, Chancellor Kohl stood firm on the one issue that dominated his talks with Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov: West Germany's determination to abide by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization decision...