Word: bend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vroom! ... Aargh! ... Eeesh! ... Careening out of a 180° hairpin bend, engine screaming at 6,800 r.p.m. and rear wheels adrift, the smoking blue racing machine slides perilously close to the curve, then barrels into a straightaway. "C'mon now," the driver growls through gritted teeth. "Punch that pedal! Now feather the gas! Hug that curve like your darlin...
...show of loyalty immediately injected into the affair questions about the President's own judgment and his moral standing with the public. Carter had pledged to avoid even the appearance of impropriety among his appointees. Now he had opened himself to the charge that he was willing to bend his rigid rules to save a close friend...
...feel any obligation to sell him," says Robert A. Cohn, editor of the biweekly St. Louis Jewish Light. But other editors put it differently. Says Herb Brin, editor of the Heritage and Southwest Jewish Press in Los Angeles: "We've done drumhammer support for him. We refuse to bend." The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the main Israel lobby in Washington, rushed out a two-page white paper claiming that Begin's reputation as a terrorist was a "myth." By A.l.P.A.C.'s considerably sanitized account, he was a freedom fighter and his men attacked only military targets...
...been following the Palestinian moves from a distance, may decide not to veto the Arafat proposal but abstain instead. They are encouraged by the fact that the U.S., which has held Palestinian groups at arm's length until they recognized Israel, has begun unofficially at least to bend this policy to make some contacts. During his visit to Geneva last month, for instance, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young met and briefly chatted with Daud Barakat, the P.L.O.'s representative there...
Risky Game. Reaction in Europe to the dollar's plunge was mixed. Furious West German bankers charged that when they refused to bend to U.S. pressure and revalue the mark, Blumenthal resorted to stealth to accomplish his ends. They said he deliberately provoked the dollar's slide; the U.S., rasped the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, was playing "a selfish, risky game that shows little responsibility toward the world economy." In Britain, the Bank of England responded to the dollar's decline by abandoning a policy of keeping the pound at a level of $1.72. Instead, the government...