Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reference to pressures in Congress for tougher measures against Japan, which had a $58.6 billion surplus in U.S. trade last year, Reagan said, "We recognize the domestic pressures that play a part in the decision-making processes of our respective countries...
...inventions. For instance, a lamentable bellhop at the hotel (well-played by Blake Spraggins) always seems to have his itchy hand out for a non-existent tip. He later laments that "I should 'a listened to my wife and been a podiatrist" instead of staying with the "bellhop" trade...
...women profiled seemed to handle the exhaustion of balancing their roles as doctors, wives and mothers by not thinking about the trade-offs they had to make. One followed her husband to Montana, only to flounder with a law degree she could not find a satisfying way to put to use. Another became a prize-winning photographer, before succumbing to a series of heart-breaks, withdrew into an empty life of loneliness...
...offering to stay there if the Soviets came down to zero as well -- dismantling an entire class of weapons already deployed, in exchange for NATO's altering future plans. As members of the Administration themselves admitted at the time, it was like asking the Super Bowl champs to trade their All-Pro front line for two future-round draft choices. The result, predictably and perhaps intentionally, was no deal...
...Gorbachev is offering a real trade. The U.S. has 316 missiles of its own and will have to remove them from Europe if the Soviets remove their 922 warheads. While the U.S. will get the better end numerically, the Soviets will satisfy their determination to get American INF missiles out of Europe, albeit at a considerable price...