Word: toughing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott's inside account of how, after years of feints and frustrations, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have just about reached a strategic-arms-reduction agreement, an achievement that will be at the center of next week's Moscow summit. It is a tough subject, but one worth a few minutes' extra attention, and we don't think anyone can tell it better than Talbott, the author of two books on arms control. Not far beyond that story comes Profile, a department we introduced six months ago to provide word portraits of compelling personalities. This...
...tough approach scored a victory of sorts last week. A Florida jury convicted Carlos Lehder Rivas, a kingpin of Colombia's Medellin cartel drug empire, of conspiring to smuggle 3.3 tons of cocaine into the U.S. He could be sentenced to life plus 150 years in prison. But no one was so naive as to believe jailing Lehder would make a dent in drug smuggling. In Congress, a desperate search was under way to find something that might work. The Senate has followed the House's lead by voting 83 to 6 to force the military to participate in antismuggling...
...sure it's easier to solve twenty tough problem areas together at one time," Duehay said yesterday. He said he wants to stop Cambridge from becoming a "mini-Manhattan" or a "Bloomingdale's on the Charles...
Widely admired by the writers and editors who have worked with her, Amsterdam is known as a tough and careful master who savors the process of gathering news and labors over every nuance and comma. "She is one of the most energetic and committed editors I have ever seen," says Shelby Coffey | III, who worked with Amsterdam at the Washington Post and was recently named executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. Amsterdam's detractors complain that she can be impatient, has a thin skin and gets on better with male colleagues than with female. Amsterdam is married...
Moreover, the general is still hanging tough. Reagan Administration officials disclosed last week that a State Department representative has been bargaining with Noriega, offering him incentives to leave the country. Under one Administration proposal, the U.S. would drop federal drug-trafficking charges against Noriega if he agreed to depart. But the strongman publicly rebuffed that idea last week, declaring, "Panama's sovereignty is not negotiable...