Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object to the term pariah in your story on the Pope's meeting with Kurt Waldheim. According to the dictionary, a pariah is an outcast. To use this word to describe President Waldheim, Austria's head of state, was offensive...
...justice is undergoing treatment which is not incapacitating and is short term," said spokesman Michael O'Hara. "The prognosis is excellent...
...news media picked up the story immediately, and the term "Olliemania" was coined. The telegrams served to provide North with something his medals proved incapable of. The telegrams gave the National Security Council staffer, who was in charge of much of the Iran-contra affair, a measure of invincibility. To challenge North was to challenge all those telegrams. North seemed to have the voice of the people on his side...
Dartmouth, because it runs on a year-round session, requires rising juniors to attend classes during the summer. In return, students are expected to spend one term of their choice away from school...
...charges cast a pall over the Shultz mission; some State Department officials say that was one reason the charges were so well publicized, perhaps even hyped. Says a senior U.S. diplomat: "There are forces of darkness, if you want to call them that, who oppose any kind of long-term improvement in U.S.-Soviet relations." Even Republican Congressman Richard Cheney, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, concedes that some people inside the Reagan Administration "may well have" exploited the spy case in hopes of embarrassing Shultz...