Word: strobe
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Last Friday morning, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott had a tense, 20-minute session with Yeltsin at the Kremlin. Talbott, speaking in Russian, said, "We need to know what your intentions are and what you are going to do." An aide interjected, "Mr. President, Mr. Talbott wants to know if you plan to resign." In a conference call with Clinton and other top American foreign policy officials later, Talbott reported that Yeltsin slammed his fist onto the conference table and replied, "I intend to serve out my term!" That clinched the summit...
...Here's why: the audience stands in a cavernous room for the entire hourlong show, while a dozen or so performers soar overhead. Suspended on wires, they swoop and twirl, climb the walls, bounce in and out of the crowd. There's wind and a rainstorm (you get wet), strobe-light effects and pounding music. By the end, the aggressive performers have coaxed many in the crowd to boogie along, completing the hall's transformation from theater to disco. This mix of circus and performance art from the Argentine troupe De La Guarda is original, eye popping, repetitive. It lacks...
...There may be a spiraling arms race here, but we do not think it is inevitable," says Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. The world can only hope so. Before the May explosions, the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff conducted several simulated war games to see how the U.S. might intervene to prevent a nuclear-armed India and Pakistan from using those weapons in a war over Kashmir. The games always ended the same way: the officers concluded that there was virtually nothing they could do to stop the nukes...
...bomb's-bigger-than-yours stakes, Indian defense minister George Fernandes dismissed Pakistan's test devices as "ping-pong balls," insisting that India's largest blast beat Pakistan's by 45 kilotons to 10. In other words, both sides are battling to escape what Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott -- quoting William Blake -- called a "fearful symmetry...
...Indian Foreign Secretary Krishnan Raghunath meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in Washington. Raghunath has not been told of the testing plans but is instructed to tell Talbott that New Delhi is still busily conducting its long security review. In hindsight, says National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, "they were not forthright." At the CIA operations center, no order is sent out to spend the millions of dollars and precious fuel that would be required to move the four satellites out of their regular--now compromised--orbits...