Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre menu introduced to buyers for gourmet grocery stores at the 33rd Annual International Fancy Food and Confection Show, held last week at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. As the estimated 30,000 visitors shopped their way around 400,000 sq. ft. of floor space, eyeing and often sampling the wares of 729 exhibitors, it was clear that a marathon peripatetic nosh was under way. , Looking for products that will tempt big consumer dollars this fall, the professional shoppers lined up with a fine impartiality, tasting almost everything they encountered en route, whether...
Such worries about Gorbachev's ultimate goals involve another Leninist byword: peredyshka (breathing space). Both Lenin and Stalin were adept at justifying tactical retreats and temporary accommodations when these suited Soviet aims, only to return to the global struggle when conditions ripened. "The No. 1 question," says James Schlesinger, "is whether Gorbachev's new thinking is intended simply to achieve a respite, a pause, so that the Soviets can repair their economy; then in ten or 15 years go back to the ideological conflict...
...main challenge will be finding some accommodation on Star Wars. The Soviets have inched away from their across-the-board opposition to Strategic Defense Initiative research by hinting that they might permit some testing, perhaps even in space. Kissinger argues that finding a middle ground is impossible because Washington's goal is to deploy SDI and Moscow's goal is to do away with the program; a long delay, he argues, would in effect kill it. But Schlesinger, who does not believe that a delay in deploying SDI would necessarily be fatal to the program, says the outline...
Through an Inner Space of humor...
...Inner Space...