Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many left-wing members of Britain's ruling Labor Party, it would have been preferable for the government to auction off some of the crown jewels. Transport Union Chieftain Jack Jones condemned the action as the squandering of a national asset. Grumped one Cabinet member in private: "It's like selling the paintings off the wall." What prompted all this indignation was the government's proposal last month to sell a substantial share of its stake in British Petroleum Co., the nation's largest industrial concern...
...that the men's tennis team lost a shot at the Ivy crown and the NCAA tourney with a 5-4 upset loss to Yale, after leading 3-2 in the third-set tiebreaker of the crucial doubles match...
Blumenthal taught at Princeton for three years, but scholarship was too tame for his combative temperament. He took a job as vice president of Crown Cork International, a bottle-cap manufacturer. In 1961, he secured an appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. When the Kennedy Round of negotiations for tariff reductions got under way, Blumenthal was made chairman of the U.S. delegation. Instructions to be tough were superfluous; that was his natural style...
...part of a global struggle. Their diplomacy led to the involvement of Britain's enemies−France, Spain and Russia−in ways that favored the rebellious colonies, and then cut loose from them in a separate treaty of peace by which John Jay won the British Crown's recognition and liquidated the residual problems of the Revolution...
...landing in Brussels, Kissinger threw himself into a series of mini-shuttles and summits. He called on King Baudouin, met with Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan and conferred with the European Community Commissioner for External Affairs, Sir Christopher Soames. There were also sessions with seven Foreign Ministers, notably Turkey's Ihsan Caglayangil and Greece's Dimitri Bitsios, both engaged in critical negotiations on the future of Cyprus...