Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both sides are seeking to minimize the dispute. President Carter at a press conference referred to it only as "an honest difference of opinion"; privately, some U.S. diplomats are furious with Begin for trying to weasel out of a clear commitment for domestic reasons. The post-mortem recollections of the participants are impossible to reconcile. The only certainty is that Begin did agree to some kind of freeze. The two points of view, as reconstructed by TIME'S correspondents...
...country: the U.S. As recently as 1976, nearly 90% of all drilling activity was still concentrated in the U.S. and Canada, even though these nations account for only 14% of the world's estimated reserves. While the debate between the oil optimists and pessimists remains unresolved, it is clear that there is much more room for new exploration...
...Middletown III researchers, working on a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, are still two years away from presenting a final report. Their central finding, however, seems clear: almost all the social forces shaping life in modern-day Muncie were already present in 1924. It amounts to a startling message about the nation: that American life has not changed very much in 50 years -or at least the kind of American life lived in a town like Muncie. The Lynds, describing the wrenching dislocations that propelled America from a somnolent agrarianism to a modern industrialism, said that...
...convenience, man and wife try to get what they can out of each other. Julia shows Henry the finer points of gold prospecting, while he applies himself to Julia's education in bed. "You can always tell a virgin on account of the whites of the eyes aren't clear," Henry assures her. "I don't want to brag a lot, but I have on occassion put a gal or two in tune with nature." Undaunted, the feisty Julia spits back, "I'm sure nature is grateful...
...summer have left Washington's foreign policy establishment far behind, and official action to reap the benefits of a vigorous and directed East Asian policy have been blocked. If nothing else, normalization would certainly add a new dimension and a new flexibility to U.S. foreign policy. It is clear that the Chinese, if not viewed as a dependent factor in U.S.-Soviet policy, are willing to experiment...