Word: developable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attrition from 1968 to 1970 and the October war of 1973. Since 1967, he tells his guests, the hostilities have cost Cairo $24 billion. "Think what a paradise Egypt would be," he says dramatically, "if that had been invested to develop this country." When the Palestine National Council, a kind of parliament of the P.L.O., met in Cairo last year, Sadat sent its members on a sightseeing tour to Suez city, Port Taufiq and Qantara East. Explained an Egyptian editor: "He wanted them to have an idea of what Egypt sacrificed for the Palestinians...
...Nasser established as Egypt's only political party. He uses the A.S.U. only as a sounding board of grass roots opinion; membership is no longer mandatory for representatives sitting in the People's Assembly, Egypt's parliament, and Sadat has allowed small, informal party groupings to develop. Although the assembly debates legislation and occasionally calls government officials to task, it is the President who makes the decisions that count. He carried on negotiations with Henry Kissinger largely in camera, and Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who sat in, is the only other Egyptian who knows all that went...
Kissinger also urged that the 18 IEA nations collectively cut imports of oil by 4 million bbl. per day by the end of 1977 and spend up to $1 trillion in the next ten years to develop additional sources of energy that would make the industrial world independent of the oil cartel. Yet, as Kissinger conceded, there is nothing that the consuming nations can do in the next several years to prevent oil producers from raising prices whenever they want to. Indeed, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may hike world prices by as much...
...says Butler, much of this pain and humiliation can be eliminated. He and his fellow gerontologists urge those who want to help their parents-and other elderly-to help overhaul old policies and develop some new ones, particularly with regard...
Pierce also said from preliminary descriptions he believes that the sites could be too costly to develop with the library corporation's existing funds...