Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likelihood that a handful of Senate and House conferees will determine the ultimate outcome. Responding to Speaker Tip O'Neill's expert prodding, the House had passed most of the Carter program intact-and in a single bill. But the Senate has been slicing it up, bit by bit, into a series of bills. The conference committee cannot be assembled until the Senate completes its multiple energy moves, and that could take several more weeks...
...Geneva settlement is like a tall mountain, full of crevices and sharp rocks. Therefore, you don 't go to it in a straight line. You go through zigs and zags. You even go down a little bit, then you keep moving. As long as you know where you're going, that's what's important. And we know where we're going. We know we 've got to make zigs and zags...
...chill in years between a U.S. Administration and the Israelis and American Jewry. By week's end the frost had melted?a little. More important, Israel, the U.S., the Arab states and the Soviet Union were close to agreement in principle on a formula that might, with a little bit of luck, allow the Geneva conference to meet this year after all. As Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy put it, "Things are moving." Or, in Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's somewhat more cautious formulation, they were "inching along...
...interpreted. I used an Afrikaans expression [Dit laat my koud] which meant that I was not emotionally involved, the same as if you would say to me that your aunt died yesterday. I would simply say, "Well, I'm sorry." The direct translation into English sounds a little bit callous, but I only meant to say that I was neutral. I feel sorry for any person's death. But you understand, I'm not emotionally involved; I was not a particular supporter of Mr. Biko. I knew who he was, of course, and the record...
...Suddenly Savin's stock collapsed; by the middle of last week its price had been cut nearly in half, to $27.25, and a modest rally brought it back only to $28 Friday. The drop was a classic case of how jittery stock traders can be panicked by a bit of nonnews...