Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intimidated" by the idea that his vote alone could destroy the pact's chances for ratification. Byrd added that two major debates in the Senate would probably determine the vote. One discussion would concern the possibilities of hidden Soviet advantage in the treaty and the other would deal with the difficulties in verifying Soviet claims...
...again evident. At 60, the Prime Minister, who has a black belt in karate, is reaching back for that little extra that has made him the West's longest-established leader. But he faces a public, disillusioned by high unemployment and spiralling inflation, which charges him with failing to deal with his avowed priority when he took office ten years ago: keeping Canada together, or more accurately, placating Quebec...
Among German Christians, even those who express doubts about Jesus' Resurrection, Lapide's ideas have been welcomed. Besides working on a third book, which is to deal with Jesus' Passion, Lapide has time to appear at religious conferences where he has been known to twit German liberal Christians about their lack of faith. The demythologizers of Easter, he says, are "sawing off the branch of faith upon which they are sitting...
...never heard of these people," says Esquire National Editor Richard Reeves. "They could have landed from Mars." Felker plans to remain in New York City after their landing, but earlier this year he bought an all-advertising throwaway newspaper in California and signed a lucrative deal with 20th Century Fox to develop movie ideas. "In the end I'm going to do something else in journalism," says he. "I'm a journalist...
Instead Carter will have to deal with Mrs. Thatcher--dubbed the 'Iron Maiden' by the Soviets--who has been openly skeptical of the value of detente and a SALT II agreement. And though the Conservative commitment to increased NATO defense spending may please the Pentagon, a Tory Britain acting more Europe-conscious and less, as the French allege, "as a stalking-horse for American interests," may well be rated a minus by the State Department...