Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...national scene, Bok has more effectively spoken out for the values for which he was originally lauded. But the initial good feeling surrounding the Bok appointment proved unfounded. His closed, unreceptive management style proved a more subtle form of conservatism than Pusey's "call in the cops" approach...
...take money from the purveyor of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game may seem like the American Cancer Society soliciting funds from a cigarette company. But Papert has always been a maverick. In his seminal book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, he advocates a self-motivated approach to education that gives as much importance to the lessons learned in computer play as those drilled home in textbooks. He has received funding in the past from the National Science Foundation, IBM and Lego Systems...
...elusive, nuclear-tipped weapons opens the way to a sweeping treaty that will trim overall long-range nuclear arsenals 30% to 35%. But Baker and Shevardnadze could not bridge their differences on how to reduce conventional troops and tanks in Europe. Baker said the U.S. had offered a "new" approach, but "our counterparts were unable to respond at this time." Still, it is likely that Gorbachev and Bush will sign a full treaty by year...
...course, Tehran gets a boost. Settlements of this sort will help President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ease his country back into the trade and economic relationships it so badly needs with the rest of the world. And if he cares to regard it as evidence that a conciliatory approach to the U.S. pays off, all the better...
...response would be an immediate, all-out nuclear attack on enemy cities and industry as well as on military targets! Most alarming, Slavsky ignored the question of what, other than military force, might prevent war. I pointed out that Reflections warned against exactly the kind of approach he was taking, in which life-and-death decisions are made by people who have usurped power (and privilege) without accepting the checks of free opinion and open debate. I raised the issue of Czechoslovakia: Was there any guarantee against Soviet intervention? Slavsky said that had been ruled out by the Central Committee...