Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter looked out the window and flashed the thumbs-up sign. They had a deal. Begin got his copies of the proposed agreements in his cabin, Birch, read them carefully and told his aides: "If this is it, we're going to sign. I'm going to call President Sadat and then go see him." Outside, the rain was torrential. Begin told Sadat he would come over to his cabin, Dogwood, as soon as the rain stopped. Before he got there, Sadat sent over some autographed pictures of himself with Begin and Carter that he had dedicated to Begin...
...mood of humility, the Shah launched a campaign of reconciliation with his religious opponents. He brought home his ambassador to the U.S., Ardeshir Zahedi, to open a dialogue with dissident mullahs. Sharif-Emami was expected to call this week on Ayatullah Sharietmadari, 76, the religious teacher who is regarded as the most powerful spokesman for the Shi'ite opposition. In addition, Ayatullah Khomeini, 80, a popular mullah exiled in Iraq since 1963, might be permitted to return home if he disavows the overthrow of the Shah...
Ullman's call for help for private enterprise might have seemed startling a few months ago, but at the conference it was the unchallenged wisdom echoed by speakers of many viewpoints. Former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, now head of Wall Street's Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, coupled a persuasive appeal for steps to foster the development of new businesses with a wry observation that "an investment banker calling for a cut in capital gains taxes has all the credibility of Dracula asking for charitable contributions to the blood bank...
...that battle alone. "There are contributions by labor and by industry that are required also. The President in the next few days will be considering additional options, and I am sure we will be appealing to business and labor for additional help and additional sacrifices." That sounded like a call for a kind of social compact to keep wage and price boosts moderate, and it clearly hinted at the wage-price guidelines that are likely to be a major element in the Administration's Stage Two anti-inflation program...
...about waste for a long time, the breadth of this feeling is new. Back in 1958, 42% agreed with the statement, "Government wastes a lot of money we pay in taxes." In 1968, 60% agreed and this year the figure is 78%. Fully 80% interpret Proposition 13 as a call to trim excessive spending...