Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twin events had promised to be the most important since the declaration of martial law on Dec. 13: a major speech by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the country's ruler, and the first meeting of the party's 200-man Central Committee since the emergency began. Poles hoped that the general and the committee would give them some clear signals about the nation's future and perhaps even announce a recovery program for an economy that was growing weaker day by day. But the expectations came to nothing, and that in itself was significant. By doing so little...
...believe it is pointless to plan for nuclear war in light of the havoc it would wreak, "thinkables" claim we must plan as if nuclear war might happen at any time. And, say the "thinkables," we must prepare for survival in the aftermath of an atomic battle. Hence, the twin goals of "thinkable" planning are to devise ways to "limit" nuclear war once it starts, and to provide for civil defense in anticipation of the holocaust...
...trade with South Africa, significantly loosening the controls imposed by former President Jimmy Carter four years ago. At about the same time, the federal government's most recent envoy to the apartheid-ruled nation cautioned U.S. officials to avoid making statements that could anger the ruling Botha regime. Those twin developments make it all the more imperative that other U.S. institutions from Congress on down to corporations and universities act vigorously to reprove South Africa for its repressive and discriminatory system...
...exhausting company. Seeing him through a child's eyes helps. Charlie does not look on his father as an itinerant handyman. "He's a genius," he assures strangers. And indeed, Allie does more than talk. On a whim, he bundles his wife, Charlie, a younger son and twin daughters off the Massachusetts farm he has been working and takes them to Honduras. He explains: "I once ate a banana from Honduras. That tasted mighty good, so I figured why not migrate...
...there were mixed reports on the Shah. He was characterized as weak and isolated, his advisers as venal and immoral. Claimed one 1976 CIA report: "In the Shah's family are an assortment of licentious and financially corrupt relatives, notably his twin sister Ashraf, a lady possessed of a greedy nature and nymphomaniac tendencies...