Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the United States should not support Israeli expansionism and aggression. We do not call on the United States to throw Israel into the sea or even to break her special relations with the State of Israel. Let America give Israel whatever she wants, provided she remains content with her borders. This will never affect our relationship with the United States in any way. We, as her friends, care about her interests. An example to hand is our decision to lift the oil embargo when we realized it began to affect the interests of the American people...
...reject this message you've transmitted to me from the Soviet leaders, both in form and content. It is unacceptable. I reject, too, this method in dealing with...
...Administration must also put together an anti-inflation program that consists of more than constant disavowals of wage-price controls. What that program should be is a legitimate subject for urgent national debate; the very fact of a debate would reassure foreigners that the U.S. is not content just to hope that inflation will go away. Further, Carter might appoint a task force to study ways of increasing U.S. exports, and thus shaving the trade deficit, without trusting to a sinking dollar to do the job. Another useful step would be to ditch the provision of Carter...
...Clark subcommittee recommendations, which are self-consciously moderate and "pragmatic," seem too willing to give the South African minority government another chance to make good, considering its past record. While the Senate may be content to wait to observe the effects of this half-way measure before taking another insufficient step, South African non-whites continue to live each day under the most systematically repressive and racist government on earth...
Smooth transitions from story line to song, and vice versa, are not the trademark of Lady Be Good; the dialogue and the musical numbers are quantum leaps apart in quality and content. In the first act, the dumbness of the transitions probably can't be--and certainly weren't--covered up. After the title song, the women chorus members are forced to squirm off stage in a clump, giving one mutual twitter with all the naturalness of a concerted burp. There are fewer transition problems in the second act, probably because there are fewer transitions. Once the background has been...