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...defunct, and one of its member states, East Germany, had ceased to exist -- or more to the point, had defected to NATO. Soviet divisions were pulling out of Eastern Europe for reasons that had nothing to do with CFE and everything to do with the anticommunist revolution that had swept the region. START too needs to be updated before it is even submitted to the Supreme Soviet and the U.S. Senate for ratification...
They were swept in a best-of-three by St. Louis in 1946, and lost to the New York Giants in 1951 on Thomson's ninth-inning shot in the deciding third game...
...Swept out of favor is the sexy image of '80s best sellers like Yves Saint Laurent's Opium and Klein's Obsession. The cry now is for romance. Lauder's ads for SpellBound simply show two people looking into each other's eyes. In a Vogue interview, Klein rhapsodized about days with his wife Kelly that have no edge and precious few events...
...protocol by appearing before the congressional panel in full uniform with a chestful of decorations but also present his defense with the same quaver of voice and modicum of manly moisture in the eye that had served Nixon so well. The result was a tidal wave of Olliemania that swept the country, made lying to Congress a paradigm of patriotism, and is still fondly recalled by those who relish the fine art of political lachrymosity...
...showed that Saddam had moved his army to Iraq's border with Kuwait last summer. It could not reveal whether he intended that merely as an act of intimidation or as a prelude to attack. Neither will technical spying prowess be able to predict popular uprisings like those that swept across Iran in 1979 or the Soviet Union this year. "You don't sense the mood of the bazaar from a satellite 100 miles in space," says George Carver, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who was the CIA's special assistant to the director...