Word: deal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs to have this noninvolved outpost." Many Lebanese agree, on the practical ground that a draft would cost at least $30 million. Editorialized the Beirut Star: "Lebanon realizes that Israel's military might is much stronger than her own. It would take a great deal of money to improve on the situation. Since 1943, we have followed a policy of letting the big powers protect us. Why not in the future as well...
...that Sino-American relations be based on the principle of "peaceful coexistence," a phrase Peking has not used in relation to Washington since 1964. Perhaps the invitation to resume talks with the Americans was no more than an effort to rile the Soviet Union, which fears a Sino-American deal as much as Peking worries about U.S.-Soviet collusion. But there have been other signs as well...
Monogamy, in fact, turns out to be biologically "unnatural." As Fox puts it, "Man is by nature promiscuous, but works hard in the opposite direction." How then did the family structure evolve? The answer, suggest the ethologists, has a great deal to do with the uncertain history of the development of man's only major biological specialization-his brain. From a scratch start with the simians, this marvelous cultural device grew threefold in man in one million years-an evolutionary rate of unprecedented rapidity. Asks Fox: "Did the growth of the brain lead to the capacity for greater social...
Change's first issue, which will go to 4,300 charter subscribers (Bonham needs 22,000 subscribers to break even), also makes it clear that the magazine means to deal in straight talk, avoiding the adulatory tone so often taken by education journals...
...months ago, Fiat leaped further across national borders-and advanced the cause of European integration-by taking over France's Citroën. Agnelli personally negotiated the deal with some friends, France's tiremaking Michelin family, which controls Citroën. Agnelli sought an outright takeover, but Charles de Gaulle objected and the French government limited Fiat to a 15% holding in the firm. In fact, Fiat will get effective control of Citroen through a complex holding-company arrangement. "Have no doubts about it," Agnelli told a friend. "The merger is complete." When the Fiat-Citro...