Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel's brave surrender of its oilfields, frontier towns and strategic buffer zone--as impressive as it is--has not accomplished the goals first proposed in 1977 by the late Anwar Sadat and later nurtured by Jimmy Carter. The dream of lasting peace has faded behind the smoke of gun battles and vehement declarations from various combatants that no more concessions will be made. Instead of the first giant step toward a new understanding, the completion of the Sinai agreement has ironically become an exception in a furious conflict...
...growing loneliness, what Nixon needed above all was a keeper of the gate, someone to buffer him from the conflict that he now had even less desire to handle directly. On the evening of May 2, I received a telephone call from Rose Mary Woods, his touchingly loyal secretary who had been banished to the periphery by Haldeman but who was now back as one of Nixon's principal props. Nixon wanted to bring in Alexander Haig as chief of staff, she told me, for a week or two. He was afraid I might resent seeing my former subordinate...
...status quo, the political practicality and economic costs and benefits of its key proposals (e.g. elimination of the brain drain from LDC's renegotiation of the debts of LDC's preferential transfer of technology and appropriate industries to LDC's expansion of the Generalized System of Preferences; formation of buffer stocks, producers associations, and indexation programs with respect to the major commodities of LDC's creation of a code of conduct for transnationals; and an increase in the role of Special Drawing Rights in the international monetary system). And if we cannot give significant support to the NIEO, then...
Unprecedented as it was, the cooperation nonetheless worked, and fairly quickly. Each side gave something--community residents allowed the plan to be modified in the interest of profitability to include offices, and Harvard designed the project as a buffer between the Square and the neighborhood...
...neighborhood "feels they're being nibbled to death," Sullivan said, adding however that Hines Co. and Harvard had "already modified their plan significantly" to meet neighborhood concerns about over-development and to provide a "buffer" between the project and the adjacent neighborhood...