Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signal a comprehensive approach would be to maintain full-fledged embassies in four far-flung corners of the Third World that have long been color-coded red on American maps: Afghanistan, Angola, Cuba and Viet Nam. By snubbing those governments in various ways, Washington is doing more than just underscoring its disapproval of their leaders; it is also stubbornly reaffirming the implication that they are minions of Moscow...
...helicopter. The alternative is nonacoustic detection. For example, researchers are exploring ways of sensing a submarine's magnetic field, its thermal radiation or the turbulence in its wake. Some are even studying the bio- luminescence and the scattering of fish caused by a sub's passage. Another approach is radar imaging from orbiting satellites, which may be able to register the minute elevation of the ocean's surface resulting from a sub gliding beneath...
...Washington, Michael Riley rang up Diana McLellan, the doyen of D.C. gossips . . . "She breathlessly picked up the receiver and talked without stopping. And she was doing her nails, causing her to lose her train of thought several times" . . . In Los Angeles, Jeanne McDowell concluded that gossip levels there approach the toxic because so many people have car phones . . . Stuck in traffic? Call a friend and talk about Cher...
...recast its role as troublemaker in the Middle East to that of peacemaker. In November the Soviet Ambassador to Syria, Alexander Zotov, suggested that Damascus abandon its dream of parity and instead embrace "reasonable defensive sufficiency." Zotov acknowledged that one motive for the decision to pursue a less aggressive approach was Syria's $15 billion military debt to Moscow...
Master artists first sketched in the design, then supervised a group of apprentices who meticulously handcolored in the page with brilliant colors and gold leaf. This care, this comprehensive approach, accounts for the striking vividness of the pieces...