Word: timedealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In one stroke, Gorbachev had taken the arms talks public and implied that a summit was linked to progress in Geneva. The warm words from Washington, it seemed, had only brought another Soviet negotiating gambit. Gorbachev had timed the announcement for maximum effect. It coincided with antinuclear demonstrations in Europe...
The release of the letter "was not timed to affect the events of this week," said John Shattuck, the University's vice president for government and community affairs, who directs Harvard's public relations efforts.
DIED. Ina Claire, 95, actress of insouciant charm and wit who graced vaudeville in the pre-World War I era, silent films and later talkies, but mostly the Broadway stage, where she specialized from 1917 to 1954 in the highly varnished comedies of bad manners and good breeding (The Last...
Former Olympians Andrew Sudduth '85, Kevin Still, and Jeane blanagan were among the 550 competitors representing 42 clubs and colleges from the U.S. and Canada who took turns rowing timed five mile pieces on bicycle-wheel ergometers.
The attack was carefully timed and meticulously planned. Shortly after midnight under a full moon, small-arms fire began to crackle around the Kampuchean refugee camp and guerrilla base known as Ampil, hard by the border with Thailand. The shooting eventually died away, only to be replaced, just after sunrise...