Word: thaws
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...Bleeding Heart suggests a slight thaw. Its core is a seemingly endless and inconclusive dialogue-SALT talks in the gender wars-between a 45-year-old woman and her lover, a middle-aged businessman. Dolores Durer is a professor of English at a Boston college, divorced and the mother of grown children. She is in Oxford, England, to complete research for her book, Lot's Wife: A Study of the Identification of Women with Suffering...
...crystal structure of man-made snow is denser; it forms smaller flakes that can be packed more solidly and will stand up better to skiing stress. What is more, the precise mixture can be controlled, enabling Fahrner to lay a solid, almost icy base that will defy a thaw, then top it with fluffy powder...
...what it gave with the right. A further clause guarantees freedom "to propagate atheism." Despite the new "soft line," Peking has never abandoned its Marxist hostility to all religion. It believes that, after suitable "atheistic education," the Chinese will "throw off the various kinds of spiritual shackles." The new thaw is essentially an expression of a "united front" policy toward China's primary problem: modernization. The government is determined to attract wide support both at home and abroad for its ambitious new economic and social goals...
...taken place in an atmosphere of increasing cordiality between the two superpowers. Administration analysts believe that an important policy decision was made in the Kremlin last fall to ease the hard line that it had been following ever since the new President Carter began talking of human rights. The thaw was set back by Washington's sudden normalization of ties with Peking, but the Soviets apparently have recovered from that shock and now seem determined to improve relations with the U.S. The payoff expected by the Soviets is Senate ratification of SALT, an easing of restrictions on trade...
...night it included strawberry shortcake--just didn't make it either. Due to a combination of freezing and the wind chill factor from the perpetual spinning, most of the desserts arrived at the table ice cold--consider ordering them with your dinner to give them time to thaw...