Word: arena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter wanted to hold off, for some practical as well as political reasons. He wants to appear in his presidential role as long as possible before he descends into the political arena. And if he became an active candidate, his presidential trips might be ruled campaign excursions. Then he would have to pay for them out of his own funds. So rather than make an immediate announcement, the strategy group decided on holding a Carter rally in Washington in late October. Some 200 "Democratic heavies" would attend, White House aides said -a risky undertaking if lots of the heavies stay...
...department threatens the status of higher education programs, it will probably do so in the financial arena. If primary and secondary interest groups dominate agency policy, much sought-after aid to education funds may be rerouted from the nation's colleges...
...although government has been his life, Eliav will re-enter the political arena with some misgivings. "It's a cruel, cruel game, far crueler than football or boxing," he says. "You'll find out in the next year's elections in this country...
...Corporation following its policy of last year, as indecisive as it was successful, and with the SASC focusing its activities away from the Harvard divestiture issue and toward the Boston area, it would appear that the debate over Harvard's South Africa related investments will fade away from the arena of the Corporation's concerns. But while the SASC may enlarge the range of its activities, the faculty, the soft spot in the heart of every university president, may be the group that sees the South Africa debate continues...
...arena was the Sixth Conference of Nonaligned Countries opening this week in the Cuban capital, which had been unusually well scrubbed and widely festooned with anti-American slogans for the occasion. For the 93 delegations from mostly Latin American, African and Asian countries, plus three guerrilla organizations, it promised to be the most critical ideological tug-of-war in the quarter-century-old identity crisis of the emerging Third World. The main question: Can the nonaligned family of nations continue to maintain its uncertain neutrality between the U.S. and Soviet superpowers-or will it lurch east and left and effectively...