Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson was expected to start John Devin in goal last night. But the junior netminder pulled his knee in warm...
Apart from being a bit rusty, "the weather may affect B.U. because they are used to a 'perfect' field and have many more warm-weather players," Shattuck said...
...annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in San Francisco last week was a long-awaited opportunity for warm handshakes and upbeat talk. During the past 18 months, health professionals have meticulously tested every pint of blood in the nation's reserves for the AIDS virus. The hugely successful effort, which costs more than $50 million annually, has rendered negligible a once ominous threat to recipients of blood transfusions. But the convention proceedings got a jolt when Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute informed the assembly that an AIDS virus called LAV-II, whose presence...
...Viet Nam, he responded, "There is always the possibility of adjusting programs that might not work." Still, Peking is wary. Says a Chinese journalist in Moscow: "Gorbachev has not taken a step forward. He has merely lifted his foot." The Japanese, too, are cautious. Soviet efforts to warm relations began last January, when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze traveled to Tokyo. Since then, Moscow has wooed Tokyo with diplomatic concessions and hints of a Gorbachev visit, perhaps as early as January. In Vladivostok, Gorbachev pointedly called for "profound cooperation" between Moscow and Tokyo. Japan has the technology Moscow needs...
...more will be needed to warm Moscow-Tokyo relations. The two countries, which never signed a peace treaty after World War II, have been at odds over the four northern islands off Hokkaido, where the Soviets have 10,000 troops and 40 advanced MiG-23s. Sovereignty over the islands, occupied by the Soviets at the end of the war, remains a highly divisive issue. Last August there was a modest breakthrough when the Kremlin allowed a group of Japanese to visit their relatives' graves on two of the islands without first obtaining visas. But the Japanese are not overly impressed...