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...officials from both countries, who had endured 22 rounds and 24 months of serpentine negotiation, stood stiffly at attention. Finally, the two men appended their initials to a series of documents, smiled, stood up and, a little clumsily, embraced each other. "This," said Sir Richard, "is a solemn and important event...
...simple giving a Russian friend a book, because know that you are technically breaking an oppressive Soviet law, you feel inquiry unworthy of your own belief in free inquiry. And if you go ahead, you feel a knot of tension. David K. Shipler Russia: Brok 1 Idols,Solemn Dreams...
Central bankers and finance ministers, who are not exactly a frivolous group even at the best of times, have been particularly solemn over the past two years as they struggled with the Third World's staggering debt problems. But the financiers arriving in Washington for this week's joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were in an upbeat mood. Gone was the near panic that swept the same meeting in 1982 after Mexico declared that it could not make its loan payments on schedule. Now the bankers and ministers share a growing...
Thus, the plethora of committees and task forces devoted to the solemn tasks of establishing computer "priorities" and exploring new computer "possibilities." Thus, the frantic rush to put together the requisite software so that the Mac can be used in computer science courses this fall. Thus, the talk about how Harvard is going to link up all these pc's so that students can talk to each other, retrieve large chunks of information from data banks, and otherwise precipitate the next Scientific Revolution...
Thus, the plethora of committees and task forces devoted to the solemn tasks of establishing computer "priorities" and exploring new computer "possibilities." Thus, the frantic rush to put together the requisite software so that the Mac can be used in computer science courses this fall. Thus, the talk about how Harvard is going to link up all these pe's so that students can talk to each other, retrieve large chunks of information from data banks, and otherwise precipitate the next Scientific Revolution...