Word: departments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been preparing for his most important foray into the diplomatic arena since taking office: a two-day meeting with Mexico's President José López Portillo in a vital effort to improve relations between the two neighbors. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was due to depart for China on his most significant venture abroad so far. And the Middle East shuttle diplomacy...
...give them a solid foundation for future economic growth. It will take strong politicians and firm economic policies to do that. Brittan borrowed a line from Shakespeare's Henry V to sum up Europe's economic mission: "He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart...
...There were threats of litigation over the division of profits. With the coming of a new political era, the Moral Majority began trumpeting charges of immorality on the air waves. And Jaclyn Smith, who has won a much publicized new role playing Jacqueline Onassis, announced that she too would depart when the season ended. The dying show never got that...
...active duty, each Israeli male must serve four to six weeks of reserve duty every year until the age of 55 (unmarried women serve until 34). The obligation, in a nicely egalitarian way, affects everyone, but it exacts a toll. Shops slow down; restaurants stand half-empty as chefs depart; gaps must be filled on assembly lines. As former Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin once put it, "Every Israeli citizen is on eleven months' leave from the army...
...most part, the author rightly allows the women to speak for themselves: she refrains from interpreting their words and interjects only to summarize. "I wanted to preserve their lives, not analyze them," she explains. But one wonders why she felt compelled at all to depart from her great-grandmother's desire to compile an anthology. If her plan was simply preservation, an unfragmented assemblage of these memoirs would have provided a greater service to historians of the frontier and to women studies than Stratton's dissection and seemingly arbitrary reorganization of their tales. This is especially true since the original...