Word: clearing
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Israeli fears of political pressure were heightened by clear signals in recent weeks that the P.L.O. might be prepared to embrace Resolution 242 and accept Israel's right to exist in exchange for Palestinian self-determination and national independence. Mindful of Israeli sensitivities, U.S. officials flatly ruled out voting for any draft that endorsed an independent Palestinian state, but they have not dismissed the idea of approving a milder resolution that would affirm the Palestinians' legitimate political rights. Such phraseology would merely align the language of 242 with the Camp David accords, and Carter Administration officials doubted that...
...What I want is a clear and well-defined resolution, and I have a right to that. What do you expect me to do? What you Americans did when you approved the establishment of Israel? Because this is a coin with two faces: establish two states. Why do you confirm one and neglect the other? I believe your commitment to the resolution that resulted in the establishment of Israel, and included at the same time the establishment of a Palestinian state, is crucial...
...slick regional and city magazines. Moreover, metropolises and counties now go to exorbitant lengths to build spectacular sports arenas, convention centers and cultural palaces, ostensibly to serve the public but also as a form of chest thumping. St. Louis has constructed an enormous and now familiar arch with no clear purpose other than to provide something for the town to brag about besides the Mississippi River. Today, it seems that every place is willing to suffer almost anything to get its picture on television or into films. Chicago, merely to smuggle itself into a new John Belushi movie, has just...
...force. Chrysler also reported that, partly to save money, it was pulling out of a proposed joint venture with a Taiwan company to produce trucks. And lacocca disclosed that the company was considering dramatic cash rebates to customers of up to $500 a car; the aim would be to clear its staggering factory stockpile of nearly 80,000 unsold vehicles, valued at just under $700 million. Chrysler still has some 1978 models unsold, and, at current levels of demand, more than 200 days' supply of many of its 1979 cars...
...involved in the many decisions that took place during my absence and I did not have a clear understanding of the proposed structures for governing the department," Southern said. "If anyone had sat me down and explained what was going on, I might have had a better attitude," she added. Southern added, however, that she is not criticizing Rosovsky...