Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adolfo Calero is no stranger to the violent violation of free speech. In fact, he stands accused in an assassination attempt on Eden Pastora. On May 30, 1984 a bomb exploded at a public press conference in La Penca, Nicaragua called by dissident contra leader Eden Pastora (a.k.a. Commandante Zero). Eight people were killed including three international journalists. Many other reporters were mutilated...
...treaty, however, that has become the touchstone of whether the U.S. and Soviet Union can summon the political will to begin reversing the arms race. Since 1981, when Reagan first proposed what eventually became known as the zero-zero option (meaning simply dismantling all intermediate-range missiles), there has been a long series of negotiations, interrupted for 16 months by a Soviet walkout that began in 1983. When Shevardnadze's team $ arrived in Washington, the toughest remaining question was what to do about 72 Pershing IA shorter-range missiles, owned by West Germany and equipped with U.S. warheads...
...lack of an experienced quarterback. After two years of the competent--sometimes brilliant--Brian White, Crimson Coach Joe Restic had to sift through the depth chart to come up with a starting QB. David Landau, his opening game starter in '86, finished the season with 10 interceptions and zero touchdown passes...
...together later this year between their bosses, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The principal task for Sherpas and summiteers alike is to end an eight-year deadlock on arms control by concluding a treaty on intermediate-range nuclear forces. Under the so-called global zero option, the Soviets would have to do away with an entire class of modern, mobile multiple-warhead missiles, the SS-20s, which have threatened America's Asian and European allies for nearly a decade...
...dichotomies are no mere zero-sum stalemate, sensibility vs. sensibility ad infinitum. There is meaning to this madness. Masterly, highly original work is being produced by designers of all kinds. Arata Isozaki's Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is one of the most fetching new buildings in the U.S. Tadao Ando's severe, uncompromising architecture won him Europe's prestigious Alvar Aalto Prize last year, as well as the respect of young architects all over the world. Maki, an architect who has lived and worked in the U.S., thinks this is unquestionably the Japanese moment. Given the "exceedingly...