Word: closers
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That reflects what many regard as the Helsinki accord's main value: as a yardstick for measuring East-West relations, and thus part of the process of refining them. The accord's clearest failing has been its inability to bring East and West any closer to reducing or limiting their levels of armaments. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, for example, have been almost completely deadlocked since President Gerald Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev met at Vladivostock in November 1974. There also has been little progress in the three-year-old Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR...
...claim does have a certain validity. The North was largely settled by immigrants who learned English as a second language and were heavily dependent on the written word, he notes. Southerners, on the other hand, have always relied on the spoken word. "In that respect, Southern speech is closer to the native speech of England," concludes Pederson, and often to Elizabethan England. "It is a much more sensitive and effective medium of communication than Northern speech, for the most part, because it is so rooted in the spoken word...
Except for Campaign Manager Hamilton Jordan, none of the candidate's 250 full-time staff members has served longer or is paid more ($22,000) than sandy-haired, chain-smoking Powell, 32. He is also closer to the candidate than even Jordan. "Jody probably knows me better than anyone except my wife," Carter has said. If the candidate wins in November, Powell will probably become one of the more powerful presidential press secretaries in decades...
...traces the legacy of segregation to historical circumstances. "When Palestine was under Turkish control, Arabs and Jews were separated. That continued through the British mandate and the establishment of the state." It is unlikely to change in the future, but, he adds, "We do have a desire to work closer together--that's one of the goals of this program." He points to the teaching of Arabic in Jewish schools and of Hebrew in Arab schools as signs of rapprochment...
Adding to the concern is a study by Rinfret-Boston Associates, an economic consulting firm to business, which contends that industry is much closer to operating at full capacity-and running into inflationary shortages-than the official figures of the Federal Reserve Board indicate. According to the board, U.S. industry on average was using only 78.6% of its capacity in the first quarter of this year. But the Rinfret firm reports that 40% of the industries it surveyed were operating at more than 85% of capacity in April, and that the figure will be "significantly higher" by December...