Word: aligned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-determination and national independence. Mindful of Israeli sensitivities, U.S. officials flatly ruled out voting for any draft that endorsed an independent Palestinian state, but they have not dismissed the idea of approving a milder resolution that would affirm the Palestinians' legitimate political rights. Such phraseology would merely align the language of 242 with the Camp David accords, and Carter Administration officials doubted that it could lead to an imminent U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue. Still, such a diplomatic flirtation jolted the Israeli government. So did U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's warning last week that Israel may have...
...stake are millions of dollars in damage suits. In Washington, American Airlines Vice President Donald J. Lloyd-Jones told a Senate hearing: "It may be that we did cause the crack." But he suggested that the problem could have originated with metal wedges used by the manufacturer to align parts that had not fitted exactly when the aircraft was built Said he: "It may be that the existence of shims in the aft bulkhead created an interference fit that made the creation of the crack inevitable, no matter what procedure was used...
...KENNEDY SCHOOL can educate future government leaders to sympathize with business interests. Lamont University Professor John Dunlop has worked to align the Kennedy School programs with those at the Business School. Last October he told Harvard Gazette, "... we need to work these two areas more together so that each can appreciate the setting, constraints, and personal context in which opposite number operates." Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, told his School's Visiting Committee on March 14, 1977, "The natural alliance for a professional school of government should be the business school. We expect that the good relations which...
...injustices and excesses of power." Medellin swiftly became a synonym for progressive action−and frequently radicalism−in the Latin American church. Under the banner of the "theology of liberation," many priests, nuns and lay people used an unusual synthesis of Marxian economic analysis and biblical theology to align the church with the continent's poor. The theology has had its price: for trying to put it into practice, more than 800 Latin American clerics have been jailed, kidnaped, expelled or, in some cases, killed since...
Ionesco's stubborn refusal to align his art with the politics of these "engaged" critics and Party members had its consequences. Several months later, after seeing an untouched revival of The Chairs, the same critics who had previously lauded him now apologized for their mistaken praise. "They simply said the play was not worth seeing," says Gaetan. "He was told he no longer had the talent...