Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other matters of substance. But he put major emphasis on a series of symbolic acts that were intended to have broad significance. These acts, said National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, would demonstrate to the world that the Carter Administration, more than any of its predecessors, is trying to break out of old foreign policy molds, willing to deal equably with diversity abroad and genuinely committed to the cause of human rights. Having frequently demonstrated his skill with political symbolism at home, the President seemed to be trying his hand at the same game overseas. Apart from a possible upward blip...
...British government faces exactly the opposite question: how best to spend the $40 billion or so that will flow into the national treasury in the next seven years. That is obviously a happy problem, but a problem nonetheless: while a right decision offers Britain the chance at last to break decisively out of the cycle of ravaging inflation and high unemployment in which it has been trapped, a wrong choice could keep that cycle going...
...Yamani said that Saudi Arabia would cut back production until the oil surplus disappeared and intimated that OPEC would then, presumably in 1979, start sending prices higher again. Even the new production in the North Sea, Alaska and Mexico, moreover, will not be enough in the long run to break OPEC'S corner on world oil supplies. All the oil found so far in Alaska, for example, would provide only two years' worth of current American consumption...
...brought to term when the Emperor Constantine formally embraced the new faith and in A.D. 324-330 moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople. But across the still vast spread of the imperial territories, which ran from the Euphrates to Gibraltar, there was no clean break with the old religions. For 400 years, the remnants of the pagan gods contended against Christianity and with the various mystery faiths of Egypt and Asia Minor...
Mready the highest-grossing picture in U.S. history ($195 million), the film may very well break European records too. In Paris, where it opened last October, 1 million people went to see the robots, Artoo Detoo and Threepio, at the annual toy show, and kids say goodbye with a wave of the arm and a "Que la force soit avec toi." Their parents are standing in line too, and journals have hailed its brave statement of the human spirit...