Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made him feel like "crying for America" as he watched from the dry roadside in Collinsville, Texas. Almost as surprising is the excitement: the deaf children in West Virginia who each got to pass the torch, then broke into a flurry of sign language; the thundering chants of "USA! U-S-A!" that erupted in St. Louis; the 4,000 people in Oklahoma City who crowded so close to Runner Ken Hardwick that he could only walk his route...
...ways in which the two countries conduct diplomacy with each other, none is more important than strategic arms control, the cooperative effort by which these otherwise competing superpowers try to regulate their rivalry and keep it from getting out of hand. Of all the ways in which Soviet-U.S. relations have declined over the past year, none is more ominous than the breakdown in strategic arms control. Of all the challenges facing both leaderships in the months and years ahead, the resumption of arms control is the most vital...
...visit to Washington last month. De la Madrid bluntly told Reagan that the time was ripe for fresh feelers. Though a top State Department official has met quietly with the Sandinistas five times over the past year, the last session, in March in Managua, turned into an anti-U.S. diatribe. Impressed by the Mexican President's plea, Reagan told Shultz to try for a meeting. The Nicaraguans readily agreed, though an argument over where to meet (Shultz, due to join Reagan in Europe, insisted on Managua's airport, while the Sandinistas held out for the city itself...
...great research university, a "teacher of teachers." Its reputation has been as austere as its core curriculum. Undergraduates, traditionally a minority on campus, have earned a reputation as eggheads, grinds and worse. An edition of The Insider's Guide to the Colleges once observed that "studying is the U. of C. student's favorite pastime." Admits Chicago's president, Hanna Holborn Gray: "There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige...
...antics may seem comical to anyone who remembers a sketch by the Second City acting company that portrayed a U. of C. football player confusing left guard with Kierkegaard. Maybe that is the intention. Insists Herman Sinaiko, dean of students: "I want happy students. If they're sitting around worrying, they can't read Dostoyevsky the way they should." The students seem to be getting into the spirit of things. HO, HO, reads a T shirt being sold by a group of undergraduates. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IS FUNNIER THAN YOU THINK...