Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian learned that Washington Senator Henry Jackson is ready to support Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. Jackson had won 249 delegates in the primaries through last week, and Carter will capture a sizable chunk of them. The Senator's move will lift Carter closer to the winning figure of 1,505 delegates, and Jackson hopes by his action to help Carter sew up the nomination...
...WEST BANK TRANQUILLITY. The choice we are facing on the West Bank is not a simple one. Our dilemma is, realistically, to make up our minds which is closer: the prospect for peace or for terror and war. Since the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose program is to get rid of Israel, was appointed by the Arabs as their representative for the management of the West Bank, I do not believe the prospects for peace are enhanced. While we are not going to give up an inch of our democratic convictions, we also are not going to give up an inch...
...program--as a member of the Bateson trip four years ago--came at a three-day intensive "sensitivity session" at a mountain-top retreat on Hawaii's main island of Oahu. The Esalen Institute sent its leading counselor from California to help the 30 students of the school draw closer together, to form a cohesive bumper against the shocks of the different cultures the group would be moving through and living within...
...what is The New York Times? It is a paper with a crankiness for detail that its 800,000-plus readers trust will give them a closer version of the truth than that in any other newspaper...
...sexual and ethnic proportions of personnel in academic institutions, according to Walter J. Leonard, Harvard's affirmative action czar. Goals, timetables and proportions are all euphemisms for quotas, without which the charges of "deficiency" and "underutilization" wouldn't make any sense. In fact, the demand for stricter quotas with closer compliance was the main point of the recent student demonstration...