Word: codicils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was also an important codicil: Xerox would have no editorial control over the essay. If the company had disapproved of it, Esquire would have been free to publish it anyway−and keep the money. Says Salisbury: "I saw no ethical impediments to doing the piece. After all, big corporations like Xerox and Texaco commission operas and other cultural enterprises. Meanwhile, the poor magazines have been dwindling away over the years, and along with them the employment of writers." For its part, Esquire was equally unfazed by the unusual arrangement...
...support efforts by other Arab states to oust Israel from the U.N., and temper its current economic boycott of firms doing business with Israel. Sadat, of course, has already reopened the Suez Canal and twice extended the mandate of the U.N. buffer force. Under the same unpublished codicil, Israel would apparently accept the principle of negotiating a similar interim agreement with the Syrians, and perhaps the Palestinians as well. This arrangement for linkage between the two Israeli frontiers is understandably vague, but seemingly enough for the Egyptians to say privately to both the Syrian and Palestinian leaders that Cairo...