Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton said he was heartened by the apparent thaw in North Korea's stance, announced by former President Jimmy Carter today, following meetings in Pyongyang. But he requested clarification from the North Koreans as to whether they would agree to freeze their nuclear program while talks were under way. Clinton also asserted that he would continue to push for U.N. sanctions. Carter had reported that the communist leaders will allow nuclear-facility inspectors to continue their work and would like the U.S. to help the economically beleaguered country replace some of its more dangerous nuclear-power technology...
...athlete's oath. An American reporter reduced him to tears at a press conference by asking about the impact on his training of his brother Ketil's disappearance while jogging last October and of Vegard's fruitless search for the body, lost in snow at least until the spring thaw...
What he like about old Leverett:"It's always warm and I don't need a space heater anymore. I used to use mine to jumpstart me in the morning--I would lay next to it after I woke up and wait to thaw...
...words offered a hint of progress as Israel and Syria go back to the bargaining table in Washington this week, where more than two years of on- again, off-again negotiations have made little headway. And the language bought Assad a thaw in his relations with the U.S., which has been his No. 1 priority ever since the Soviet Union imploded and he could no longer count on Moscow to be his primary patron. To salvage his flattened economy, Assad needs aid and trade from the West. In a sense, said a U.S. official, "he's less interested in peace...
...fact that they have a potential human being stored on ice. There are already 10,000 frozen embryos floating around in liquid-nitrogen baths in the U.S., stuck in a kind of icy limbo as their would-be parents sort out the options. Do they let the embryos thaw out and die? Do they give them away? Do they have the right to sell embryos to the highest bidder? And who gets custody -- or the cash -- in a divorce...