Word: directionality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cash flows, helping both countries to break with the Kremlin. And in 1976 Carter became president. Shocked by Carter's "hands off" policy in Africa--specifically Angola, and now the Horn--and determined to keep the Soviets out of their backyard, the Saudis and Iranians pushed Sadat to seek direct negotiations with Begin, rather than concede to the American effort of bringing the Soviets to the peace table at Geneva. Both realized the importance of a decisive U.S. policy and in light of Andrew Young's comment that the Cubans were helping to stabilize the Ethiopian situation, the U.S. decision...
...heightened by the Soviet presence in Ethiopia not only because it gives Moscow a foothold adjacent to the Sudan, the only real supporter of Egypt, but because it enables the Soviets to control both sides of the Red Sea and thereby control the traffic through the Suez--a direct threat to Israel. In addition, it threatens to neutralize the small countries of Djibouti, which recently gained independence, Somalia and Yemen, which borders on Saudi Arabia. The Soviet Union thus seeks to undermine the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and justifies their wishes for more than a mere kind...
Objections to the assembly on the basis of its lack of direct institutional input into University decision-making foreshadow what will doubtlessly be a great source of frustration to future representatives. There weill be issues on which the administration will steadfastly ignore student wishes. In such cases, students will have to decide whether to acquiesce, or whether they feel strongly enough to pursue the issue further. But in many cases, the mere expression of student opinion will make an impact on decisions. If one $500 fee increase is changed to a $400 increase, then the association's existence will...
...federal government has reduced its grant to Radcliffe's National Direct Student Loan (NDSL) program for '78-'79 by about 45 per cent, because the Financial Aid Office underspent NDSL funds in '76-'77, leaving a $51,000 surplus, Martha C. Lyman, acting director of financial aid, said yesterday...
...successful Washington, D.C., attorney. They are, agrees Berkeley Law Dean Sanford Kadish, masters of "a mysterious art form to which the layman is not privy, with mumbo jumbo going on." The heart of the art, of course, is the impenetrable language that lawyers use, sometimes at great length (a direct outgrowth of the English practice of paying lawyers by the word for their briefs, which were, as a result, rarely brief...