Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...currently siding with Syria and the P.L.O. against Egypt. The only real solution to the region's prevailing instability lies in reaching some kind of settlement of the Palestinian problem in the West Bank and Gaza. But the negotiations toward that end, even if they eventually succeed, are certain to be slow and difficult...
...tactics prompted an outcry about "sordid haggling," although the Tories were engaged in some backstairs dealing of their own. Having won over the Welsh, Callaghan and his lieutenants turned their attention to three of the twelve members from Ulster; most of the others were Protestant Unionists considered certain to vote with the Conservatives. The full weight of Labor lobbying came down upon Harold McCusker, Frank Maguire and Gerald Fitt. In the end, McCusker voted for the government, while Maguire and Fitt abstained. But Fitt, a Catholic who usually supported Labor, did so only after an anguished declaration of conscience that...
...Callaghan went to see the Queen to ask for the dissolution of Parliament. Emerging from Buckingham Palace, "Sunny Jim" was his usual cheerful self. "I always look forward to a good fight," he said. The campaign officially begins April 7, the day Parliament will be dissolved, and it seems certain that a battle royal is in the making. "My troops are ready," said Thatcher. "They have been ready for quite some time...
Similar trade-offs are being made in admissions offices around the Ivy League. The bartering is purely intramural. Contrary to rumor, the Ivy schools are not involved in a conspiracy. They get together only to make certain that financial-aid applicants are offered the same tuition reductions at every school. If Brown's admissions committee has given A's to more needy students than the college can afford with its $1.25 million financial-aid budget, a few A's will become Z's, a cutback Brown has been forced to make only twice in ten years...
...Wednesday night it should all be over. A weary Rogers will hear last appeals. The next morning he will get on the telephone and start apologizing to certain loyal alumni whose children have been rejected. "It's an exciting time," he says, working up a smile. It is an expression familiar to anyone who has watched baseball managers approaching the cutoff date, politicians on the stump and admissions directors in the spring...