Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current international system is so interconnected that the U.S. could not hope to alter it at this stage, even if it did take advantage of American military might. It is not the thousands of warheads dotting the Eastern hemisphere and pointing at U.S. cities that are the main threat to our status as a superpower, but our increasing dependency on foreign powers. There has been a transfer of wealth from the U.S. to Japan that could not have been imagined 25 years ago, as America fell from being the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor...
...COCOANUTS. Is that really Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo? No, but Washington's Arena Stage has fizzily reconstructed their 1925 Broadway hit with George S. Kaufman's script, Irving Berlin's score and some apt impersonations...
Senate Ways and Means Chairman Patricia McGovern, a supporter, "did us an enormous favor," Barrett said. "We need an accelerated, decent treatment of this bill at every stage. Not accelerated in the sense that it is rushed. But we must avoid the delay tactics that swamped the bill last year...
Reagan, setting the stage for the summit, said yesterday he hoped to conclude a treaty to cut long-range nuclear arsenals before his term expires in eight months. But the president acknowledged that might not be possible...
...system. IL-2 is now being administered in various ways to stimulate the white blood cells that attack tumors. Expensive -- upwards of $80,000 for one course of treatment -- and dangerous, IL-2 is usually reserved for patients with advanced cancer. Amy Hance, 25, of Bloomington, Ill., reached that stage early this year. Melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, had spread to her liver, spleen, stomach and lungs. The determined Hance opted for experimental IL-2 therapy, even though side effects -- including fever, massive fluid retention, anemia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and heart and lung problems -- had killed several patients...