Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Furthermore, it is difficult to arrange meetings between people of different countries because of the vast time zone discrepancies that no one really understands unless he has one of those geeky watches. And, of course, no self-respecting leader would be caught wearing a geeky watch nowadays when the media is everywhere...
What is needed is not severe laws, but courtesy. Smokers need to be more considerate of nonsmokers and vice-versa. Most of all, however, what is needed is time. The vast majority of smokers today is comprised of people from earlier generations who haven't been able to quit...
What is needed is not severe laws, but courtesy. Smokers need to be more considerate of nonsmokers and vice-versa. Most of all, however, what is needed is time. The vast majority of smokers today is comprised of people from earlier generations who haven't been able to quit...
...reprinting those memos, North was operating as a reckless and overburdened free agent of the NSC. During 1985 and '86 he simultaneously conducted a tense and frustrating series of arms-hostages negotiations with Iran and coordinated a supply line for the contras in Nicaragua. Like the ringleader of a vast, secret circus, North masterminded an elaborate network of boats and planes, along with not-for-profit corporations and Swiss bank accounts to help the U.S. sell weapons to Iran, as well as supply the contras with money and guns...
...attempt to use the Reagan magic involved a compromising entry into his world of pretense. Aides defended the Reagan fairy tales; editors treated his errors with restraint; the public punished those who were too critical of his whoppers. It was a vast communal exercise in make-believe. There had to be more to Reagan than shallowness and deception, since he was so clearly sincere and his sincerity impressed others so indelibly. He became invulnerable in his personal appeal and winsomeness, and others had to summon up more and more of their own credulity along with expressions of respect. The very...