Word: broads
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...Italy, the countries where most of the planned new missiles are to be based, claimed partial credit for devising the plan. The most notable claimant was Chancellor Schmidt, who likes to see himself as a useful mediator between the superpowers. Reagan's speech, said Schmidt, "gives me a broad base for the talks" he will have this week with Brezhnev. For once in the East-West war of words, the Soviets will be forced to react to an American peace initiative...
...gain anything, even symbolically, doing something like this." Yet other black leaders interpret the firings as all too symbolic of the Administration's retreat on such civil rights issues as school integration, affirmative action and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which Reagan has criticized as overly broad. "What the Administration is trying to do," says Althea Simmons, Washington lobbyist for the N.A.A.C.P., "is not just put civil rights on the back burner, but take it off the stove completely...
...people who marched through Amsterdam last weekend showed dramatically, the movement draws its strength from a broad cross section of society, much as the U.S. anti-Viet Nam protests did: housewives, professionals, academics, clerics and union members. "Today's situation is probably more serious than the crises and friction we've had in the alliance during the past 30 years," says
...Steel action fitted into the company's broad diversification program of the past few years. The firm has invested more and more money in chemicals, manufacturing and engineering; and steelmaking now accounts for only 11% of total company operating income. U.S. Steel will pay for Marathon probably with the $3 billion in bank credit lines it has built up, and the $2.5 billion in cash on hand partly from the sale of coal and cement properties. U.S. Steel Chairman David M. Roderick insisted that the Marathon purchase would not "diminish U.S. Steel's commitment to steel operations...
Thomson has always been a man of broad artistic sympathies. Four Saints astonished its first listeners with its folksy, hymnlike tunes drawn from the composer's Baptist background and sung by an all-black cast. Although the 1928 work has dated badly-a little of Gertrude Stein is, after all, a lot of Gertrude Stein-it is still a landmark, something that served to define what "American" was between the wars...