Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter said he was ready to reopen negotiations over natural gas purchases in formal government-to-government bargaining sessions. Said LÓpez Portillo: "Let's get on with it." As for buying more oil from Mexico, Carter did not press for a speedup of production, but did express U.S. willingness to increase its purchases whenever Mexico could deliver. "We got past all the recriminations," said a White House aide...
...such considerations have not deterred Church from speaking out, sometimes erratically and perhaps sometimes under pressures from his home state. He startled the White House by insisting−despite his strong stand favoring normalization with China−that the Senate express concern over the security of Taiwan. Similarly, in the midst of the Iran turmoil, he needled Saudi Arabia by contending in an ill-timed and ill-conceived statement that it "cannot count on our unequivocal support" unless it helps conclude an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty...
...Turkey has a functioning parliamentary democracy that provides a valuable safety valve for venting popular discontent. The people can vote out a regime that they do not like. Says Orhan Kologlu, a spokesman for Premier Bulent Ecevit: "There is no need for a revolution to allow the people to express their feelings...
Chodorow says that fathers must take over half the parenting and raise daughters with a sense of self derived from both parents. Friday thinks that women must begin by speaking out about their ambivalence and anger. Says she: "If you allow yourself to express these feelings, the sky doesn't fall...
When the Franco-British grocery and newspaper baron Sir James Goldsmith bought the French weekly L'Express in 1977, he promised to leave editorial policy in the practiced hands of Editorial Director Philippe Grumbach whose center-right leanings contributed to the magazine's close ties to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. But a year later, says Grumbach, when it looked as if a Socialist-Communist coalition might come to power (it did not), Goldsmith began shopping for an editor more sympathetic to the left. Grumbach was kicked upstairs into an executive job sans power, secretary...