Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their three-day meeting last week, the first full working meeting ever between U.S. and Soviet defense chiefs, both men agreed that the experiment had proved worthwhile. It was never intended to be a negotiation session for achieving breakthroughs. Said Carlucci: "The purpose is to start a military- to-military dialogue...
...last week, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir faced heavy pressure from the Reagan Administration to accept a U.S. proposal for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, a plan whose conditions he had publicly reviled at home. Engaging in a shrewd game of stalling and sliding, Shamir, who got his start as a leader in the Jewish underground in pre-1948 Palestine, managed to avoid an open confrontation with his U.S. allies: he neither formally rejected their proposal nor moved an inch closer to it. At the same time he managed to create the general impression that his differences with...
...Middle East, to be held this spring and attended by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Israel and its Arab neighbors. The proposal provides for some degree of self-rule in the occupied territories and sets December 1988 as a deadline for the start of negotiations aimed at reaching a final settlement in which Israel would return occupied lands in exchange for a promise of peace...
...negotiating with the U.S. State Department and domestic opposition leaders for a deal that would allow him to step down with some assurances of safety. William Walker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central America, flew to Panama City with Deputy Legal Adviser Michael Kozak. After a promising start, the talks stalled when the emissaries refused to guarantee that President Reagan would sign an Executive Order quashing drug-trafficking indictments that two grand juries brought against Noriega last month. In Washington officials denied reports that White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker was prepared to enter the talks as Reagan...
...medical knowledge -- in effect, construct an empty shell into which programmers could pour all kinds of different expertise. In 1977 a team of Stanford researchers under Feigenbaum dubbed the new shell Emycin (for Empty Mycin) and used it to build several more expert systems. Emycin spurred a number of start-up companies, led by AI entrepreneurs like Feigenbaum, to build knowledge shells for the commercial market...