Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Army's intent is not at issue. It is trying to carry out a promise made by former President Ronald Reagan to remove the shells from German soil by 1992. President George Bush has set an even earlier deadline of this Sept...
...little comfort to the 1,200 residents of Johnston Island, which is only two miles long. The Army concedes that terrorists could try to sabotage the cargo, but it minimizes the threat. As a precaution, however, it will not disclose just when the two ships carrying the chemicals will set sail or give any hint of the course they will take...
...each in Harkin and Tauke, for $2. Or they can go into the open market and buy shares in either candidate; at the moment, Harkin is trading at $1.20 and Tauke at 80 cents. Do these price fluctuations have any bearing on the November outcome? The same faculty group set up a market for the 1988 presidential race; the day before the election, prices indicated a preference for Bush shares by a margin of 7.6% -- almost exactly his edge in the nationwide popular vote...
...York Governor signed a bill restricting "dwarf tossing" and "dwarf bowling." In tossing, a consenting and harnessed dwarf is hurled toward a mattress; bowling entails a dwarf's being strapped to a skateboard and rolled at a set of pins. Cuomo called these diversions "strange...
...Supreme Soviet, Vladimir Lopatin, a young Deputy and major in the naval forces, has taken up the cause. He has drafted a challenging 15-page reform plan calling for a phased transition to a professional army while permitting the republics to set up their own corps in the interim. Defense Minister Dimitri Yazov has categorically rejected these proposals, arguing that a smaller all-volunteer army would be too expensive and too risky in a country with more then 37,000 miles of borders to defend. But Lopatin has already begun to attract followers. The young officer's feisty attacks...