Word: central
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach, forming a task force to gently persuade uncommitted state legislators to vote against budget-balancing resolutions. A key target is New Hampshire, which holds hearings this week. Expected to testify on behalf of the proposals is California Governor Jerry Brown, who has made opposition to deficit financing a central theme of his pre-presidential campaign. Another target is Ohio, where a legislator received a letter from Jimmy Carter denouncing the amendment as "political gimmickry" that would be "so filled with loopholes as to be meaningless or so rigid as to tie the nation's hands in time...
...experts emphasize, as do Jimmy Carter and Administration spokesmen, that last week's pact was but a single step toward a comprehensive peace. Says Hisham Sharabi, a Georgetown University historian and president of the National Association of Arab Americans: "The treaty doesn't even touch the central problem of Palestinian self-determination. As a result, the Arab world is more bitter and frustrated than ever...
Ball, however, confesses that he is "pessimistic about whether we'll have the will to address this central [Palestinian] problem, particularly with an election year coming." Still, concludes Tucker, if the U.S. "follows through on the commitments implied in the treaty, then I am hopeful that it will work...
...looking for a good cry, The Champ might seem a likely bet to deliver the goods. This movie has every tear-jerking device known to Hollywood, and then some. Its central characters are an adorable eight-year-old boy and his loving dad, a has-been boxer. The action is pure hokum. Will Dad throw off his addictions to gambling and booze and make a comeback in the ring? Will Dad's exwife, now a remarried society lady, try to regain custody of the son she once abandoned? Will Dad and Mom fall in love again? Will...
...central question of the fiscal crisis, and of Auletta's book, is why did New York need to borrow all this money in the first place? He answers by calling the city "Liberalism's Vietnam" and provides a cogent parallel of how "more money, more programs, more taxes, more borrowing--didn't work here; just as more troops, more bombs, more interdiction, more pacification programs didn't work" in Vietnam...