Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...version. Carter, early in the summit, twice attempts to negotiate a freeze for an unlimited period on all new settlements. Begin calls this "totally unacceptable." The issue remains dormant for six days. Then Egyptian President Anwar Sadat suggests a three-month freeze, which Begin accepts as a way to establish "a good atmosphere" for the upcoming Sinai negotiations. The Israelis, however, insist that the agreement refers only to civilian and not to military (nahal) settlements. During the final four-hour 25-minute discussion at Aspen Lodge, which was attended by Carter, Begin, Vance, Barak and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan...
...SASC, however, did decide to form a sub-committee to establish a set structure for the third debate on their prospective demands to be held in approximately two weeks...
...Altman has rendered ludicrous some overused Hollywood techniques of establishing mood and tone, he has developed and refined others. His use of color is particularly striking. The monochromatic brown shading of McCabe and Mrs. Miller conveys the cold bleakness of the northwestern frontier, and the blue tones of The Long Goodbye are appropriate to the twilight world inhabited by Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Altman's most effective, moving use of color to establish mood is in Thieves Like Us (1974), a beautiful, elegiac story of innocent young love in the Depression-era South. He saturates his images with green and yellow...
...counting houses doubting the present and fearing the future. But nothing has been worse in a period of crumbling foundations than the decline of the dollar, which is the talisman of an uncertain world. A first move toward a more secure economic future would be to re-establish the stability of the dollar inside a more managed and predictable international money system...
...analysis is similar concerning food. The processing and packaging middlemen take three-fifths of the consumer dollar. Giant agribusiness is forcing out the family farm. Farmers leave land fallow while people starve. The government needs to break down the monopolization of the food sector, encourage production, establish grain and other reserves to assure a steady supply, and provide mechanisms for distributing the surplus to the world. Then prices would stabilize...