Word: departs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...UNITED NATIONS. Criticizing "bloc voting" in the General Assembly by members of the Third World against the industrialized nations, Kissinger warned that the coerced countries were under no compulsion to submit. "To the contrary," he said, "they are given all too many incentives simply to depart the scene." Kissinger also cautioned the Arab nations and their allies among the underdeveloped countries against trying to expel Israel from the General Assembly this fall. Said he: "We fear for the integrity and survival of the General Assembly itself, and no less for that of the specialized agencies. Those who seek to manipulate...
...Sunday afternoon when the Boston Symphony performs two more. If you've been dying to get out to Tanglewood but lacked the means, you'll be in luck Sunday--the Cambridge YMCA is sponsoring a bus that will leave in the morning, drop you at the festival doorstep, and depart right after the concert. There are also buses leaving regularly from Boston--or better yet, a scenic two-hour ride on your own four wheels...
...split does occur, it is uncertain how many would leave the Missouri Synod. Tietjen predicts that more than 1,500 congregations will depart. Others put the figure much lower, at a maximum of 500 congregations encompassing some 250,000 members. Whatever happens, the moderates themselves reject the word schism...
...Portuguese depart, both manufacturing and agriculture have sagged. Crop levels this year for tea, tobacco, cotton and cashew nuts have dropped sharply. At the port cities of Nacala, Beira and Lourenço Marques, efficiency is down 80% and pilferage has doubled in the past year. "What worries me," said a black civil servant, "is that Machel doesn't, seem to care if the standard of living falls here. In fact I think it fits in with his Maoist ideas. Maybe the camaradas [comrades] will take it in the countryside, but sooner or later he will have an urban...
Unlike their counterparts in Britain, who often depart noisily for reasons of political principle, resigning American Cabinet members and high Washington bureaucrats tend to leave the Government like guests who have been to a bad party but are too polite to say so. They smile gamely; they send the President thank-you notes...