Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manson girls and murderers and all kinds of things. And Patty Hearst too. I liked her." On the outside again, Childs sought more conventional means of supporting the band, which split up anyway. She took off for London, worked in a friend's recording studio in exchange for living space and lessons on the equipment, even hawked her first single before heading back to Los Angeles, and new unions of all kinds...
...hangout for cigar magnates and their friends, which over the years played host to such renowned lovers of the leaf as Teddy Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and Winston Churchill. The Kahanas have restored the magnificent ballroom on the second floor and are converting the "gentlemen's hotel" portion into office space...
...while, no one could accuse him of failing to deliver on that promise. Reagan showed little interest in getting to know Soviet leaders. He proposed a dubious and potentially destabilizing scheme for space-based defenses. In a speech that will be remembered long after he leaves office, he stooped to rhetorical depths not seen since the onset of the cold war, decrying the U.S.S.R. as the "focus of evil in the modern world . . . an evil empire." So what was the most conservative President of the modern age doing in the Grand Kremlin Palace, amid the zinc columns and gilt bronze...
More than a half-century later, Conley is president of the club. But the hub of cultural and social activity that flourished in 1922 has only 40 members left. It leases space to help pay expenses. Conley, who at 74 is one of the younger members, realizes that an era has passed. "It's not that the women have changed," she says. "There's still a need for contact with people. It's the life-style that's changed...
...accept an overall ceiling of 6,000 nuclear charges and a subceiling of 3,600 on ICBM warheads. At the end of May, Karpov and his colleagues eased their position on defense as well. Backing away from their earlier insistence on an immediate and comprehensive ban on all "space-strike arms," they proposed a package of what they called interim measures: a ban on antisatellite weapons, a ban on "space-to-earth weapons" (such as lasers mounted on orbiting battle stations) and a "strengthening of the ABM treaty." They suggested adding a new protocol to the pact that would prohibit...