Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foot fir, surrounded by antique toys and a miniature house set up by Amy, dominates the Blue Room. Another tree stands in the upstairs living quarters. But on Christmas morning, Amy and her family expect to be in Plains, where they will celebrate beside a tree cut this week by the President himself...
Whether Carter will prevail in the end is uncertain, but he can count on a number of strong allies, including Frank Church, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Praising Carter for having "cut the Gordian knot," Church declared: "His decision to recognize China finally brings American policy into line with Asian realities." Many Senators brushed aside as unimportant Carter's failure to consult them. Said Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie: "We have been committed to normalization for six years, and everyone in Congress must have been aware that this dialogue was going on." Among other supporters of Carter...
...treaty when the Camp David summit concluded, in a burst of exuberant optimism, exactly three months earlier. But at week's end, reluctantly acknowledging that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin were still far apart on the few unresolved issues, a disappointed Vance abruptly cut short his shuttle and returned to Washington. As Vance headed home, a weary Sadat met with his aides, and the Israeli Cabinet held a special five-hour session that resulted, to nobody's surprise, in a unanimous rejection of the latest Egyptian proposals...
...tails of such outfits as Columbia and Warner Bros.-Elektra/Asylum-Atlantic. Such a fact was not lost on anyone in the record business, least of all Robert Stigwood. "I knew Al was dedicated to music," Stigwood said. "I just didn't know he was that dedicated." The grateful board chairman cut Coury in for some additional pieces of the corporate pie, a consideration valued at well over $5 million. Said Stigwood: "Al's worth...
...start again in June. "Confrontation, picketing and burning down are not the order of the day," says Moore, who is. widely known as an activist priest. His "edifice complex," as churchmen dub it, will use a very special construction crew. Workers will be hired from Harlem and trained to cut stone in the medieval fashion under tutelage of a master builder imported from Britain...