Word: thaws
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...QUEST FOR SELF-EXPRESSION: PAINTING IN MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD 1965-1990, Columbus Museum of Art. What 43 Soviet artists have been up to since the post- Stalin "thaw." Through...
...Some fear that Newtonian physics governs superpower relations: What goes up must come down. They warn that our countries' interaction has in the past been prone to wild swings between euphoria and depression, cooperation and conflict, thaw and chill. Do you see any such danger? How can we avoid such cycles? How can the recent progress be made permanent...
...frigid climate of the cold war, the U.S. and its allies barred their companies from selling high-tech wares with potential military use to the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe. But the current thaw prompted the Bush Administration last week to propose a relaxation of export controls on 43 of the 120 types of restricted products. Among them: personal computers, precision machine tools and telecommunications equipment...
...sort of a Star Wars fantasy." Even Southern California Edison officials concede it would take billions of dollars and decades of public works to electrify the streets of Los Angeles. There may never be electric roads in the snowbound Midwest or in Eastern cities subject to the freeze-and-thaw cycles that turn the best-made highways into roller coasters of bumps and potholes...
...things that has spurned this on," says Robert M. Gogan, head of the student environmentalist group at the School of Education, "is the seeming thaw of the Cold War. People ask `so what's left as the big issue?" Many of them, Gogan adds, have concluded that it is saving the planet from ecological collapse...