Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proletariat." A front-page editorial in the Peking Daily contained one of the most ferocious assaults on capitalism to appear in China in several months. Said the paper: "Capitalist society is a mercenary slave system, involving police persecution, suicides, prostitution and so on." The Daily also castigated "certain young comrades" for their "lack of patriotism" in "begging for the support of imperialism in their espousal of human rights...
...main hurdle left for the treaty was the approval of Israel's Knesset. Debate begins early this week and is expected to last for a few days. Although rhetorical fireworks are anticipated and Begin is certain to come under blistering attack from the ultra-left and ultraright, there is almost no chance that the measure will fail. The opposition Labor Party leader, Shimon Peres, has already indicated that he will support the treaty, even though by voting against it he might be able to topple Begin's government. Said Peres: "Peace comes before power, and I would prefer...
...await the establishment of self-rule in Gaza and the West Bank, something that could take several years. He was concerned that, once the Israeli Star of David flag begins flying over an embassy in Cairo, some Arab states would recall their envoys from Egypt. It is almost certain, moreover, that the Arab League's headquarters would move out of Cairo rather than remain in a city that is host to an Israeli senior diplomat...
...used to be known as Robert E. Lee, which had a certain ring, but now he is called Roberto E. Leon, which has certain advantages−or so it seemed for a while. A retired Navy captain, Leon, 56, works as an engineer for Montgomery County, Md., outside Washington. When Lee took the Hispanic name Leon, he asked the county to grant him preferential status under its affirmative-action program. Leon noted that he had a Spanish grandfather and claimed that he had been considering the switch for years, but he also confessed: "What's wrong with being...
...times, analyzing the paradoxical dangers of prosperity and progress, he sounds as revolutionary as the liberation theologians whom he had lately taken to task in Mexico. "A certain abuse of freedom," he charges, linked with "a consumer attitude uncontrolled by ethics," limits the freedom of others by driving them into "ever worse misery and destitution...