Word: somethingness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The get-tough approach scored a victory of sorts last week. A Florida jury convicted Carlos Lehder Rivas, a kingpin of Colombia's Medellin cartel drug empire, of conspiring to smuggle 3.3 tons of cocaine into the U.S. He could be sentenced to life plus 150 years in prison. But...
Intuitively and emotionally, the case for legalization may be hard to accept. Opponents insist that on a pragmatic and logical level it is also a dangerous and harebrained folly. Dukakis told several questioning New Jersey voters last week that he opposes legalization, and Reagan agreed in an interview with TIME...
Those women's clubs that have taken on more challenging projects seem to find members more willing to devote their time and energy to the cause. Other organizations will have to adapt their programs, schedules and rules in order * to survive. "I think we're waking up and deciding something...
Later in 1985 the Soviets seemed to take Kampelman's advice. By the fall they were proposing an overall ceiling on each side of 6,000 "nuclear charges" -- a term that subsumed warheads on ballistic missiles as well as weapons on manned bombers. Karpov said 6,000 would represent roughly...
During a long conversation over lunch, Kampelman said to Karpov, "Look, Victor, I don't know if you know what 'wiggle room' means." He pointed to his shoe. "It means room for the toe to move around in. At this moment I have no wiggle room. None. That's because...