Word: yearlong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiating table until the U.S. pulled its missiles out of Europe. Thus, it is no wonder that the world will be watching, and hoping, when Secretary of State George Shultz joins Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week to renew nuclear arms-control talks after a yearlong hiatus...
...Reagan Administration's satisfaction at the election outcome was undisguised. A State Department spokesman hailed the islanders for concluding "a yearlong process aimed at putting Grenada firmly back on a democratic path." Said the spokesman: "We look forward to cooperating with the new government." The Administration asserted that despite the continuing presence of 225 U.S. servicemen on Grenada, it had tried to stay out of the contest. Said a U.S. official: "We maintained a hands-off policy. But anyone who knows anything at all about Grenada knew that a moderate party was the best bet. What everybody wanted...
...Christian imagery of Goya, the palette of the impressionists, the contained violence of the fauves and cubists. Ventura augments photographs of the paintings with his own sketches of the artists at work, explains such terms as fresco and perspective and concludes with a series of brief biographies. There are yearlong art-appreciation classes that do not contain as much information and delight...
Shultz argued that Reagan, if he is to make good his pledge to break the yearlong impasse with the Soviets, must take personal charge of arms-control policy. That would be something of a departure for Reagan, who generally lets his staff reach a consensus before he acts. Shultz's argument was sound but also self-serving, since Reagan's commitment to easing the nuclear threat would automatically put him on the side of those in the State Department who advocate a flexible approach. Says one senior State Department official: "If the President wants what he says...
Last week's settlement lifted the Government's yearlong freeze on Rich's U.S. assets. In return, the Swiss company paid back about $130 million that was owed to 14 U.S. and European banks. The agreement allowed another Rich firm to sell its 50% stake in TCP Holdings, the parent company of 20th Century-Fox. Rich, a secret partner with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis in the 1981 purchase of the film studio, sold his shares to Davis last week for a reported $116 million...