Word: commonness
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...connection with GLSA, we are an entirely separate organization and are affiliated with UHS like all of the other peer counseling hotlines on campus (Room 13, Eating Problems Outreach, Peer Contraceptive Counseling, and Response). While we share some common concerns with GLSA, it it important to clarify that we are not a gay students' organization: many of our counselors are gay, but we do not select counselors on the basis of their sexual orientation...
Within the P.L.O., Abbas has always been a hard-liner well to the left of that body's mainstream. From its formation in 1964, the P.L.O. has been an umbrella organization for a bewildering variety of groups (Arafat's Fatah is by far the largest) that have little in common but the dream of a Palestinian state. Divided by strategy (whether to rely on diplomacy, guerrilla war or some uneasy amalgam of both) and the rivalries of their leaders, the groups have split and recombined endlessly. In 1974 Arab states proclaimed the P.L.O. "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian...
...shopping list, but those are the U.S. exports that the Reagan Administration has taken up as part of its month-old fight to put an end to unfair trade practices and open foreign markets for American companies. Last week the list grew longer, when the White House accused the Common Market and South Korea of more unfair trading procedures...
...President charged the Common Market with unfairly subsidizing European wheat exports during the past four years, thereby undercutting U.S. grain prices and robbing American farmers of export sales worth $2 billion annually. The Administration's complaint against South Korea was that its patent and copyright laws do not adequately protect U.S. products and authors from counterfeiters. The cost to the U.S.: more than $170 million a year. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes indicated that the action against the Common Market and South Korea is only the beginning. The President is now considering twelve other unfair trade complaints...
...inertia, from old approaches." One such mossback, presumably, was 74-year-old Nikolai Baibakov, who was ousted as the head of Gosplan, the Soviet economic planning committee. He was replaced by Nikolai Talyzin, 56, a former telecommunications engineer who was Moscow's representative to Comecon, the East bloc's common market. Also leaving the top leadership is Nikolai Tikhonov, 80, who retired from the Politburo, having resigned last month from his government job as Premier. In addition, Gorbachev put to rest the gossamer dreams of Nikita Khrushchev, who drafted a long-term economic plan in 1961 predicting the Soviet Union...