Word: confers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alignment that includes a broad spectrum of political groups ranging from conservative to leftist, flew to Paris to talk with Ayatullah Khomeini, the dissident mullah who is spiritual leader of Iran's 34 million Shi'ite Muslims. Aides to the Shah confirmed that the monarch intends to confer with Sanjabi when he returns this week. There is speculation that he may be considering a government that would be headed by National Front members...
...increased disease incidence in bottle fed infants. That' is patently untrue. There are dozens of studies which show a much higher disease incidence in bottle fed than in breast fed infants. No scientist or immunologist can deny the fact that human colostrum and breast milk contain substances which confer immunity on the infant and protect him from infections, and that infant formulas do not contain these substances. A study published last year in the prestigious Journal of Pediatrics showed a significantly lower rate of infections in breast than in bottle fed infants, even in affluent Cooperstown, N.Y. The American Academy...
...deny Jimmy Carter's diplomatic coup in emerging from the Pocotin Mountains last month with the Camp David Agreement. It was indeed a personal triumph. It was at Carter's suggestion that President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Begin of Israel agreed to come to the U.S. and confer face-to-face, and it was apparently only Carter's tireless mediation that kept the talks from ending in a frustrating deadlock. But it should also be noted that Carter's efforts were not simply a product of his missionary zeal; it is clear that the primary U.S. interest...
...Religion appears to confer a biological advantage on believers by promoting the welfare of the group. Biology limits the ways in which religion can evolve, and those different pathways "may not even be numerous...
...Robert Mugabe, flew separately last week to Addis Ababa. There they helped Ethiopia's Marxist military rulers celebrate the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I. More important, from Nkomo's and Mugabe's point of view, they had a chance to confer at length with visiting Cuban President Fidel Castro, one of their principal supporters in the six-year-old war against the Salisbury regime...