Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something about the serenity of the place that inspires a spirit of new beginnings. It was at Camp David, in the far reaches of Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, that Jimmy Carter initiated his most stimulating success as President six months ago: his summitry that broke 30 years of bloodshed and stalemate to make possible a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Last week Carter returned to the mount to seek a new start on the two persistent and interlaced domestic problems that most endanger his presidency: inflation and energy...
...point, William Quandt, the National Security Council's Middle East expert, called Presidential Adviser Hamilton Jordan at the King David and glumly told him: "It's the end of the line." Recalled a senior U.S. aide later: "We were very, very down." As the meeting at Begin's office broke up, Ephraim Evron, Is rael's ambassador to the U.S., asked Brzezinski what he thought. "I don't think the Cabinet wants peace," answered the American. "No, no," Evron responded hurriedly. "Don't jump to conclusions. We can find ways...
...conflict developed, it was a war in which epithets were more evident than shells and bullets. Last week, as usual, the Vietnamese were firing most of the rhetoric. Hanoi charged that Peking's soldiers had committed numerous atrocities during the invasion. Said a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman: "They broke people's skulls with gun butts, stabbed people with spears, beheaded them, chopped people into portions, threw hand grenades into people's shelters, rounded up people and then opened fire on them." In one ham let near Lang Son, the spokesman charged, seven children were taken from their...
...time the White House considered trying to cut back on some federal aid to states that broke the guidelines, but dropped the idea because it was legally questionable as well as politically risky. Now Kahn says that the Administration will rely on "statesmanship and informed public opinion" to curb the spread of these "outrageous" increases. Unfortunately, that is not likely to be enough to hold down public wage raises, which are highly visible and thus set a tempting example for powerful unions in the trucking, electrical and other industries in this year of heavy labor bargaining...
...island, many natives converse in pidgin English, the world's most colorful lingua franca. A dark-hued hotel waiter, cussed out by an irate Texan who has received the soup in his lap, retorts: "Eh, now, no take out on me, you stupid buggah! Udderwise bimeby I gone broke your head in small tiny pieces...