Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citing the situation at Columbia as being a fairly close parallel with the University's, Florovsky pointed out that Columbia has very close cooperation between various religious groups by use of a council which meets each week to discuss inter-faith problems. The recognized University chapel, however, may be used only by Protestants, with the other faiths using places of worship in the vicinity of the University...
...mistakes. In Indonesia, judging from the chaos that now reigns there, the U.S. may well have thrown its weight on the side of independence too soon; in Algeria it is arguable that out of deference to France the U.S. has held its hand too long. By refusal even to discuss eventual re-establishment of Japanese civil government in strategic Okinawa, the Pentagon has needlessly fed Asian distrust...
...good officers" had brought France and Tunisia closer to an agreement than at any time since the bombing of Sakiet. Despite his loud public defiance of Tunisian demands, Gaillard had agreed in private to withdraw all French forces in Tunisia to the naval base of Bizerte, even to discuss the future status of Bizerte itself. The chief remaining sticking point was Tunisian insistence that any settlement must be accompanied by a general discussion of the Algerian war. The French, still clinging to the notion that Algeria is a purely domestic problem, flatly reject any such discussion...
...bright morning last month, a procession of elderly courtiers and politicians trooped into Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's palace to discuss "crucial matters which have vital importance for the future of the monarchy." The "matters" boiled down to one: the failure of beautiful, 25-year-old Queen Soraya to produce an heir in seven years of marriage...
...never discuss matters affecting members of my family with total strangers," he erupted. "You sent some hired hack-of yours to see me this morning to discuss with me the topics you wished to discuss-you pretend it's all unrehearsed. This was not one of those he raised. I do not intend to discuss it with you. You are a total stranger to me and I suppose the few hundred people looking in at this small television station, which has not yet managed to get itself network, that they are most of them strangers...