Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House was uncertain whether the Soviets would still want to meet on this basis. Maybe. Recent visitors to Moscow have come away with the impression that the Kremlin leaders are genuinely afraid they might lose an arms race in space to superior U.S. technology...
...reason for going to Venice. The other is a one-man show by Howard Hodgkin at the English pavilion. Not since Robert Rauschenberg's appearance at the Biennale 20 years ago has a show by a single painter so hogged the attention of visitors or looked so effortlessly superior to everything else on view by living artists. One enters it with a sense of relief: here the wearisome traits of much contemporary art, its honking rhetoric, its unconvincing urgency, its arid "appropriations" of motifs, are left at the door, and the slow-surfacing complexities of mature, articulate painting greet...
...Disney shares mainly suffered in silence. New York City's Alliance Capital Manage ment lost $1.5 million on its 100,000 shares of Disney. Said Chairman Dave Williams: "We feel like we've had the rug pulled out from under us." Three Disney shareholders filed suit in superior court in Los Angeles asking that Disney's purchase of Steinberg's shares be rescinded and that Disney pay a dividend to all shareholders...
...timeless" in the temple's basement. His loyal followers took up positions they had been fortifying for months with sandbags, steel armor and bricks. When army troops finally stormed the defenses Tuesday evening, they met heavy resistance from rockets and machine-gun fire. Pinned down by a far superior, better-armed force than they anticipated, army troops called for reinforcements of tanks and artillery. After six hours, the machine guns fell silent and army sharpshooters closed in, backed up by troops with bayonets. When army troops finally stormed the basement, they found the bullet-riddled bodies of Bhindranwale...
...General Walter LÓpez Reyes, the commander of Honduras' armed forces, attacked the autocratic policies of his predecessor, General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, who was ousted by the military in March. In a televised speech, LÓpez announced that the 37-member Armed Forces Superior Council was once again the final arbiter of all defense matters. Though Lopez did not criticize the U.S. directly, his talk served notice that Washington could no longer depend on the unquestioning collaboration of the Alvarez years...