Word: communique
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...agree on a lower ceiling price. In fact it took four hours of extra bargaining for Yamani to persuade Iran Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar, whose country produces about one-tenth as much petroleum as Saudi Arabia, to change a single key word in the conference's final communiqu...
Speaking from the American side, I think the Europeans have been way behind in all this, and they've got a lot of catching up to do. I don't think it's a great accomplishment that Europe has shown it can agree on a communiqué or two. As for the whole business about how the West Europeans have to think first about building Europe, that's talk from ten years ago. It is no longer an excuse for lack of a supportive policy...
...party for French reporters, was that the Soviet move may not have been "premeditated." Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet later tried to justify the equivocal French response by noting (incorrectly) that "France buys more oil from the Soviet Union than from Iran." Even the Giscard-Schmidt communiqué appeared indecisive to some. "It says to the Soviets, 'The next time you pull an Afghanistan you will be punished,' " complained Professor Alfred Grosser of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques. "That is the action of a weak parent...
...Shikasta is Johor, a virtually immortal Canopean who is in on the creation of Rohanda and who returns in the present (the Century of Destruction) to salvage what he can from the calamity. The novel is also pieced together out of passages from Canopean history books and archives, official communiqués, sociological reports, diaries and letters of assorted Shikastans. These documents enable Lessing to imply a vast skeleton of time out of a limited number of bones; she can also shift viewpoints dramatically from the near infinite to the minute. Oddly, the novel's unity rests...
...TIME'S circulation had climbed to 250,000, and Larsen and Luce were deep in preparation for another magazine, FORTUNE. They decided to proceed with the new venture, an expensive monthly devoted to business, even after the Crash. In a 1929 communiqué, they declared: "We will go ahead and publish, but we shall be realistic. We shall recognize that this slump may last as long as one year...