Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing was certain. Though Arab leaders agreed that a meeting of oil ministers should be held to discuss lifting the embargo, they seemed in conflict on whether it should be in Cairo on Sunday or Tripoli on Wednesday. It is unlikely, though, that Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a blunt critic of the U.S., would permit a meeting in Tripoli that was likely to lead to an elimination of the oil cutoff. Algeria, Kuwait and Syria were also opposed to ending the boycott. Some of the other Arab states would probably agree to a compromise-perhaps lifting the embargo...
Even if the Maguire report doesn't totally blunt the opposition, perhaps in-lieu-of-tax payments can be used to make the library somewhat more acceptable to the community...
...General Services Administration this week took action which it hopes will eventually blunt the determined community opposition that has held up construction of the Kennedy Library for almost ten years...
...middle of five daughters, Patty Hearst is stunningly attractive. She was the first of the Hearst girls to decide against going through the deb rituals of San Francisco society, and she recently delivered a blunt critique of the daily Examiner to its editor, who also happens to be her father. Complaining that the paper neglected issues that interest young readers, she said: "Nobody under 80 reads the Examiner any more...
Hungry Guppy. The bold tactic worked. Following the blunt dialogue between astronauts and Mission Control, relations improved enormously. So did the spacemen's performance. Helped by a steady program of exercising (bicycle and treadmill), the astronauts made a physical as well as emotional adjustment to their life in orbit. They also got more tune to relax; for amusement, Carr would open a jar of peanuts and "swim" after them as they drifted off, swallowing them up like a hungry guppy. "From what we've seen on Skylab," Astronaut-Physician Story F. Musgrave said last week...