Word: coping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been shattered. Despite the ferocious anti-Sadat rhetoric of the rejectionists, it is they who are isolated, not Egypt, so long as moderate Arabs back the quest for peace. For the moment, the influence of Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization is on the wane. In trying to cope with the conflicting demands of his constituency, Arafat declined to seize the moment, refused to join in the peace process. Jimmy Carter all but read the P.L.O. out of a settlement when he denounced it as "completely negative." In desperation, moderate Palestinians may eventually be willing to go along with...
...Nile has molded the country's character as well as its geography. Men needed organization to cope with the ebbs and floods of the fickle river; thus civilization emerged. They required some means of surveying their tiny plots of irrigated land; thus geometry became necessary. Protected in their green river valley by the desert's barriers, the ancient Egyptians constructed perdurable institutions, of which the pyramids remain as awesome symbols. With scarcely an interruption, pharaoh succeeded pharaoh and dynasty followed dynasty for nearly 3,000 years before Christ, a continuity of government unmatched by any other people. To appreciate...
...that he list the number of black, Hispanic, female and handicapped pupils in each class in the city's schools. Loughlin notes that the federal rules require gathering "a lot of data that we don't keep and that is illegal for us to find out." How does Loughlin cope? "Some of the answers we just make up," he confesses...
...Egypt be better able to cope with its economic problems if it is at peace with Israel...
...require an entirely different enforcement program. Officials who were trained to cope with limited imports of natural drugs are now facing an array of new synthetics that can be easily concocted at home. Some 20 variations of PCP are probably already on the streets, most of them perfectly legal because authorities have not got around to banning them. "We're heading into a new, dangerous era," says Dr. Mitchell Rosenthal, head of Phoenix House, a drug-free program in New York City. "The natural substances-opiates and so forth-are not going to be the problem of the future...