Word: treads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swedish government has marshaled extensive evidence to support its case, including videotapes of tread marks on the sea floor, but it admits that it has no direct proof of the charges against the Soviets. The official Soviet news agency TASS denied the accusations, calling them "baseless propaganda," and even some Western intelligence experts suggest that the Swedish navy may have made the claims to deflect criticism of the unsuccessful search last fall. But many Western officials believe the Swedes, who have agreed to share information on the incursions with NATO...
Rusk said yesterday that a major goal of his administration will be to reverse the recent tread toward professional graduate training in law, business, and medicine, by encouraging students to purses the "vigorous, inventive, imaginative and broadly educated mind" that traditional graduate study in arts and sciences provides...
...wave (a sort of gentle, repeating karate chop with the hand slightly cupped), her schedule for the entire tour had been mapped out to the minute and the mouthful. Last November the Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea, walked every inch of the path that the Queen will tread during her tour. Everywhere she goes, the Queen is equipped with a precise tip sheet briefing her on names and issues to be either discussed or avoided...
...decreasing interest in Harvard reflects a national tread. Last year, American medical schools attracted 10 percent fewer applicants than...
...have no illusions that the road to peace in the Middle East will be an easy one to tread. To move towards such a goal the Arab states and Palestinian spokespeople must unequivocally recognize Israel's right to a secure existence as a nation-state. In turn, Israel must be willing to trade territory for peace--and such an action, we believe, will necessitate the democratic replacement of the Begin-Sharon government...