Word: closer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...dramatic demonstration of U.S.-Soviet cooperation, Shevardnadze and Baker stood shoulder to shoulder last August in Moscow and declared that Iraq must pull out of Kuwait unconditionally. Shevardnadze was always the Kremlin's strongest advocate of closer relations with Washington, so his departure creates doubts about the role the U.S. will now play in Moscow's "new thinking" in foreign affairs. Gorbachev has issued assurances that Soviet foreign policy will not change, but without Shevardnadze it will have to -- if only in pace and vigor -- as a new minister learns the ropes...
...Electric distribution lines. The kind that carry current down local streets, they generate fields less powerful than those from transmission lines. But distribution line are much closer to most homes. Utilities can sometimes bury or relocate the lines...
...comfortably at home over vacation, the world will be moving closer to the January 15 United Nations Security Council deadline for military confrontation if Iraq does not withdraw its troops from Kuwait. With 400,000 troops expected to be in Saudi Arabia by January, we should use the time to make ourselves as informed as possible about the situation...
January Really Is Exam Month: With a win and a loss last weekend, the Crimson slipped a few notches in the national rankings. While falling to 12th in The Albany-Times Union poll, Harvard also let St. Lawrence, currently second in the ECAC, climb a bit closer in the league standings...
...this war on women's rights, this war on gays and lesbians. Can one really be a gay Catholic? Well, I guess you could be a Jewish Nazi or an African-American Klansman. The juxtaposition seems unproductive and impractical to say the least, sadomasochistic and and schizophrenic perhaps come closer to the point. Gregg Gonsalves Staff, Harvard Law School Member...