Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Gorbachev's historic trip to Washingtonnext month will bring the Soviet Union to acrossroads and that many decisions made duringthat period will determine whether Soviet societywill become more open...
Didn't get a ticket for the Harvard-Yale game? No problem. Now, you can skip the trip to New Haven and watch The Game anyway...
...decisive meeting occurred Tuesday after the market close. James Baker, by then back in his Treasury office after having cut short his trip to Europe, first called in Howard Baker, Greenspan and Sprinkel to coordinate what they would tell the President. Then, joined by Duberstein, they went upstairs in the White House to the brightly colored West Sitting Room, which the Reagans use as a living room. James Baker opened by telling Reagan that the world seemed to be looking for some movement on the President's part, and the quickest way he could display leadership was by reaching...
French President Francois Mitterrand, speaking at a financial forum Thursday, complained about a "world that constantly moves the carpet under your feet, pulling it out and threatening to trip you up." The market bust, he said, "is the disorder of a non-system. There is no system. It has been broken." Others left no doubt about who must bear responsibility for fixing it. Says a senior Canadian government economist: "Everyone, all around the world, has been keeping an eye on the U.S. economy and wondering how long it could continue to survive without dealing with things like its trade imbalance...
Shultz did, however, want flexibility to explore a possible compromise on SDI during his Moscow trip. But at a meeting of Reagan's National Security Planning Group, Weinberger "dumped all over the idea that the U.S. should 'show leg' in the talks," according to a participant. As a result, Shultz headed for Moscow with his hands tied...