Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest challenge today is the clock. If within a reasonable period, he can produce a formula for peace, many Americans will be inclined to give him more time for the task of healing the domestic wounds. It is perhaps more likely that a troubled nation will demand progress on both fronts at once-and that may be Nixon's real test...
Cinnamon? At the Paris conference table there were only new exchanges of invective. Hanoi and the N.L.F. repeated their demands for unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and "satellite" troops in South Viet Nam, which the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge bluntly rejected. But there was at least a rare moment of light relief. Thanh Le, the chief Hanoi spokesman, complained at a press briefing that Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky want to keep U.S. troops in South Viet Nam so that they can continue to get rich on traffic in opium and cinnamon. Cinnamon? "Ah," Le explained...
Prospects for an early package agreement between the Big Two, however, remained slim. The U.S. is said to be ready to agree to Egypt's demand that Israel should withdraw from the Sinai and Sharm el Sheikh. Washington also favors the return of the West Bank to Jordan, together with recognition of Jordan's rights in Jerusalem. But the Soviets and the Egyptians still insist that Israel quit all the lands conquered in 1967. Both Washington and Moscow, as a result of discussions, now agree that the frontier areas should be demilitarized and controlled by U.N. forces...
True Grit does have to redeeming factors and they are large enough to demand mention. John Wayne gives an absolutely magnificent performance as Rooster Cogburn, the old marshal. His characterization is a modification of the familiar Wayne walking through the action unperturbed, but is so subtle and full of things peculiar to Cogburn that one is forced to marvel at the ability of an actor to take and archtype and mold it to fit a particular situation...
...leading indicators, however, reveal a significant slowdown in construction, commitments for new plant and equipment and general investment activity. Retail sales have flattened in recent months, and the actual volume of sales-discounting inflation-has not risen at all over the past year. The evidence suggests that consumer demand, which has been partially responsible for inflation, is moderating. And no wonder. The U.S. is currently in the midst of the longest period of non-growth in real take-home pay since World...