Word: conference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accurately predicted both Hitler's assault on Russia and the successful Soviet resistance. Later, he reported Roosevelt's choice of Harry Truman as his 1944 running mate before even Tru- man knew about it. But his biggest scoop was never broadcast: sailing home from the 1945 Potsdam Conference on a naval vessel with Truman, Beatty guessed that an atomic bomb was to be dropped on Hiroshima when Truman interrupted a poker game to confer with an aide and point to the city on a map. Beatty commented, "There was absolutely nothing I could...
...Arab trade boycott against Israel or an end to anti-Israel propaganda. As a result, Israeli diplomats awaited Washington's reading of Sadat's latest offers with skeptical interest, since Rabin is scheduled to visit West Germany this week and Kissinger will be in Geneva to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Israel's Premier might ask Washington for even more "clarification" than he gets from Dinitz. Translation: Rabin was desperately trying to find a way out of having to accept the U.S.-Egyptian terms. Under one proposal, which neither Jerusalem nor Cairo has explicitly rejected...
Mayor Walter J. Sullivan asked that the taxi drivers confer with city traffic officials to come up with some workable proposals for the information center...
...like the tennis court or ski slope or bowling lanes, but like the old cross country road races, this would be a test of who could get the fastest from point A to point B with only his wits and his car to get him there. The race would confer the status of outlaw upon all contestants, sure, but these were men who saw the obstacles of radar-equipped police much like Hillary saw the Himalayas in winter. They are ready to accept the consequences of their actions, and they believe they have made a rational choice...
...when they say the executive, through meetings and discussions, came to feel that PBH policy needed overhauling. Schmidt and Cooke say that all 30 cabinet members now agree on the shift to social action: it is only on the nuts and bolts of implementation that they have to continually confer and compromise...