Word: coaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Until America faces up to the unpleasant reality that the land in question is rightfully Palestinian, no number of treaties or summits will achieve lasting peace in the Middle East. The only positive results of the recent summit will be new drains on the U.S. taxpayer to coax Premier Begin to give up a few Israeli settlements in the Sinai...
Will Nixon, who has been pronounced politically dead so many times before, be able to rehabilitate himself in the American imagination? Is there sufficient rightward veer in American politics these days to coax along a bit of revisionism about Watergate? If Nixon has by now exhausted the role of American villain, the political Grendel who tape-recorded himself snarling under the bridge, then what role might he still play, if any? An eventual party emeritus, perhaps, grudgingly respected and sought out for his savvy in foreign policy...
...been contending for control of the party apparatus. One of the issues is whether the island will have a presidential primary in 1980 or continue to select convention delegates by caucus. Kraft, who speaks Spanish well and has built a strong bond with the group backing primaries, helped to coax a "compromise" through the Democratic National Committee that favors the pro-Carter faction and im proves the prospects for a primary. Should Carter face a challenge from another Democrat in 1980, he would benefit from an early contest in a friendly setting...
Norman Jewison, the director, seems unable to coax any interesting colors out of a supporting cast of usually excellent players. His action sequences, strikes, and strong-arm stuff in the early days of the union are congealed. When he is not having Cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs bathe the hard times in the golden glow of false nostalgia, his moviemaking is without dynamics. Vague and distant, it offers a succession of clichés instead of a concrete sense of the class or the lives the film is pretending to examine. About all that can be said for "F.I.S.T." is that...
...question mark over coal, the linchpin in President Carter's National Energy Plan. Carter's goal for coal is to boost output to 1.2 billion tons a year by 1985-an unprecedented increase of almost 75% over the 685 million tons mined last year-and to coax electric utilities and industry to burn the coal instead of imported oil or scarce natural gas. A cloud of uncertainty as dark as coal dust hung over that ambitious goal even before 165,000 members of the United Mine Workers walked out of the pits last December, shutting off about half...