Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, an agenda was adopted in two days. In five days, though the U.S.S.R. dodged and twisted on the way, the Big Four Foreign Ministers were actually discussing the subject for which the conference was called. It was still no strong portent that any agreement could be reached in Berlin. But, as one Berlin newspaper put it: "Even a genuine inventory of intentions would be progress." The inventory was already being made...
...Berlin conference. Molotov insisted on his order of business; the West wanted to cut straight to the central issue, Germany. But Dulles finished off his response with gentle surprise. "I propose that we refuse to be discouraged and get ahead with our business . . . Mr. Molotov has proposed an agenda. It is not an agenda which we would propose, but it is an agenda which we will take for the sake of getting on with our work...
Third on the agenda are considerations to grant University course credits for certain advanced secondary school work or language abilities. Under such a program, for example, pre-credit might be given for elementary language courses...
Behind guarded doors. Secretary of State Dulles and Soviet Ambassador Georgi N. Zarubin sat down in Dulles' rose-mauve-carpeted office for half an hour this week to talk about a time, place and agenda for a conference on atomic questions.-The Dulles-Zarubin meeting was a fruit of President Eisenhower's U.N. speech proposing an atomic-material pool for peaceful uses. At first the Russians had attacked the speech; then, sniffing free-world approval of Ike's idea, they said they were willing to talk it over. Dulles suggested a preliminary exchange of views in Washington...
...subject is definitely on the agenda for Caracas, as it was at Bogota in 1948. The way of handling it is still unsettled. There is little likelihood that Guatemala will be arraigned on charges of undermining the hemisphere's security. The U.S. will press for a full debate, in the course of which Communism's growing influence in Guatemala will presumably be aired. U.S. delegates will probably also propose specific measures for controlling Communism through stricter limits on the circulation of propaganda and issuance of visas...