Word: conference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founder. "Tom had at least four conversations with Mother," said Whitney de Roulet, 23, a Mets public relations aide. "I felt that the talks were working out well and that Tom would remain with us." Indeed, Seaver left the dugout the night before he was traded to confer by telephone with Mrs. De Roulet. An agreement was apparently worked out. But next day, Seaver heard about a story by New York News Sports Columnist Dick Young, a staunch backer of Grant (Young's son-in-law is a Mets employee). The piece contained a belittling reference to Seaver...
...senior Cabinet officers to fly to Europe this week for very different kinds of talks. The assignment of Secretary of Defense Harold Brown: to meet in Brussels with America's closest European allies to discuss ways of strengthening NATO. The assignment of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: to confer in Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko about a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. The SALT talks could affect the status of U.S.-Soviet relations for years to come...
Carter's meeting with Assad last week was euphoric. Unlike Hussein and Sadat, the Syrian President had turned down Carter's invitation to make a political hadj to Washington. So Carter took a day off from the London summit to confer with Assad in Geneva. The President effusively described the Syrian as "great," "brilliant" and one of his "favorite leaders"-even though the two were meeting for the first time...
After Geneva, Carter planned to double back to London to address NATO leaders. This extra day in the British capital will give him a valuable opportunity to confer separately with Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis and Turkish Premier Süleyman Demirel...
...guanine molecules can't be selfish and they can't be cunning. Genes don't fight for survival. Genes couldn't care less whether they replicate or not. Different genes give organisms different traits. Some of these traits are conducive to survival and some are not. The genes that confer traits that help organisms survive and reproduce become more frequent in nature, but there is no such thing as a "selfish gene." What Dawkins is really writing about is natural selection--the nonrandom differential reproduction of particular genes. And the only new idea in the book--the idea...