Word: calling
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Some close aides of the Chancellor believe he is so resigned to eventual defeat that he may ask for a vote of confidence in the Bundestag in early fall. According to this scenario, Schmidt would lose and call for a new national election, which the opposition Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance would almost certainly win. The reasoning behind this strategy: the new government would bog down in the economic and social difficulties facing the country, and thereby prepare the way for a revamped and refreshed S.P.D. to win a clear majority in the 1981 election, without the need...
...nurses, several fishermen, and 16 children under the age of ten. Captain Tadmor made an unscheduled stop in Hong Kong to get the refugees desperately needed medical attention; authorities in the British crown colony refused to allow them ashore on the ground that the Yuvali was not scheduled to call at Hong Kong...
Equally inhospitable, at first, were authorities in Taiwan: they put a police cordon around the ship to prevent anyone from getting off. Prospects for the refugees were equally poor at the Yuvali's next port of call, Yokohama, Japan has consistently refused to admit escapees from Indochina unless the United Nations or another country agrees to take the refugees off its hands quickly. Most Asian states will accept them-temporarily-only if there is no other way they can survive...
...Association of Manufacturers, the N.F.I.B. and the elite Business Roundtable), new tactics and a new awareness by executives that they need to make their voice heard on Capitol Hill. Though some experts trace the speedup in business lobbying efforts to 1973, when AFL-CIO President George Meany's call for election of a "vetoproof Congress prodded corporate leaders into action, all agree that the biggest spur was the election of Jimmy Carter. Says the N.F.I.B.'s Motley: "With Ford in there we could count on vetoes...
Located on Brattle St. underneath the Truc complex, the Club Casablanca (or the Casa-B, as the regulars call it), is the place to go to meet the kind of people your parents sent you here to meet. Not surprisingly, the drinks are fairly expensive, but they're good and there's often good jazz. Watch out for the alligators...