Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote was a significant breakthrough for Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington and his fellow British negotiators. Muzorewa had come to London vowing not to surrender the guarantees of white political control that he and two other black leaders had accepted as an essential part of last year's "internal settlement" with Smith. The Bishop then agreed to a British proposal calling for the reduction of white seats in the 100-member Parliament from 28 to 20 and the elimination of the blocking mechanism, under which whites can veto constitutional changes for the next ten years. Smith, the leader...
...negotiations into the White House where he could supervise them directly, get the credit personally, and avoid the bureaucratic dispute or inertia that he found so distasteful. In May 1971, the Secretary of State did not know of the negotiations in White House-Kremlin channels that led to the breakthrough in the SALT talks until 72 hours before a formal announcement. In July 1971, Rogers was told of my secret trip to China only after I was already on the way. In April 1972, my trip to Moscow was opposed by Rogers when he was told at the last minute...
Sooner or later every President since Roosevelt has become convinced that he should take a personal hand in East-West relations through face-to-face meetings with the Soviet leaders. It is human to yearn to make a decisive breakthrough toward peace. Presidents are strengthened in this temptation by an American public that finds it difficult to accept the existence of irreconcilable hostility and tends to see international relations in terms of the play of individual personalities...
...workers for every retired one, the ratio now is 3 to 1 and will be 2 to 1 by 1990. Masterful union negotiators, going back to legendary President Walter Reuther, have won their employees some of the best pensions in private industry. This year the union fought for another breakthrough that would tie pension benefits to the cost of living, a plum common to public employees but still almost unknown in the private sector. But the pension burden for even the giant automakers is heavy and growing. Total pension expenses for GM were $1.3 billion last year, up from...
...frozen them, preserving them for the day when they have more sophisticated techniques for studying individual genes within the chromosomes. But until then they will be at a loss to explain exactly why a translocation can make a family cancer prone. Says Brown: "What we found may be a breakthrough. The fact is we don't know...