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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what? For a little pipsqueak of a country that was no more than a little tick in its side. It's like paying a massive moral price for a reward that is worthless. Purely from a pragmatic, realistic point of view-seeing the moral strength the United States has vis-a-vis its would enemy Russia-it can't get up in the U.N. anywhere and talk about Afghanistan or any other act of futurism by the Russians because they can get up and point at Grenada...
...defendant are equally situated--each has an advocate and the case is decided by an impartial body which is not closely aligned with the interests of either party. Not only does Harvard not provide for victim advocacy, but several aspects of its approach give the harasser a privileged position vis-a-vis the victim...
...editor in chief. Indeed, to the Newspaper's scribblers, nearly every event in the newsroom, and in the world at large, is important only in terms of office intrigue. "When the copy editors crossed your commas out, people made an interpretation of your standing vis-a-vis Ron and of Ron's standing vis-a-vis [the national editor] and of both their standings in the eyes of [the editor in chief] and of the publisher in the great beyond," Makepeace learns. Will she learn anything else, like how to write a good lead or tell the difference...
...same time, Democrat Thomas Foley, the majority whip of the U.S House of Representatives, voiced concern over the frequent bitterness of Western European public opinion vis-à-vis the U.S. Said he: "Europe has been a bit too quick to pick up the random follies that this Administration has perpetrated and run them up the flagpole. I have the sense that perhaps American policy is not as Dad as many of us say it sounds." Richard Perle, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security, and Helmut Sonnenfeldt, former State Department counselor, repeatedly pointed out to their West European colleagues...
...that happened, however, policymakers in the U.S. and China still share compelling parallel interests vis-á-vis the Soviet Union. Both countries seek to ensure that Moscow does not completely dominate the Eurasian land mass. China's primary national security problem, at least for the foreseeable future, will continue to be its long border with the Soviet Union. Still, as last week's events made clear, national security is not the only issue about which the Chinese feel very strongly...