Word: established
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's biggest challenges in 1979 will be persuading a skeptical Congress to go along with a foreign policy that many critics believe is too adventurous. Conservatives are already planning to ambush him on China when he asks for legislation to establish a budget for an embassy in Peking. They also will challenge his request for measures to alter the cultural and economic ties between the U.S. and Taiwan. In addition, Carter will reopen in part the Panama Canal debate when he requests legislation to carry out the terms of the treaties signed last year to turn control...
...oilfield workers shut off the Iranian petroleum spigot and plunged the economy into chaos. Banks, schools and stores were closed. Iran Air, the national airline, canceled all flights. Bus service halted. The nation was on its knees and, were nothing done, would soon be prostrate. His earlier attempts to establish a civilian government having failed, the embattled Shah made one more desperate effort to mollify his enemies through compromise. It might or might not succeed, but it bought a little time. After hours of intense bargaining, the Shah yielded, by asking one of his leading critics to form a civilian...
...miles from Durango to Hunan, but the Mexicans and Chinese who inhabit those provinces could easily establish a kitchen detente. What they have in uncommon is a passion for pepper-not the condiment but the vegetable, red and red-hot. The spiciest variety in Hunan is a fingertip-size bomb called "To-the-Sky," because it grows facing upward. The explosive has not gone off in America; there are only a dozen restaurants devoted to authentic Hunanese cuisine in the entire U.S. The first was founded by Henry Chung in San Francisco five years ago, and almost immediately won national...
...move toward privatization does not have to be all or nothing. In recent years leading thinkers from both parties have proposed a combination of the Bush and Gore plans: establish a high guaranteed minimum-benefit level that keeps seniors from falling into poverty, gradually raise the retirement age to 70 (which could cut the program's projected deficit by two thirds) and allow workers to invest a sixth of their payroll taxes, as well as additional voluntary contributions (possibly matched by government dollars), in low-risk stock or bond funds. Such a plan, says Donald Marron, CEO of Paine Webber...
...Times, in order to reach its destination of Hillary approval ("We are placing our bet on her to rise above the mistakes and difficulties of her first eight years in Washington and to establish herself on Capitol Hill as a major voice for enlightened social policy and vibrant internationalism") is forced to skate across a thousand yards of very thin logical and civic...