Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter, as for any politician, it is a happy issue that combines both moral principle and political calculation. The President believes the elections that installed a black majority government in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia could not be called "either fair or free," largely because they were held under a constitution that reserves a disproportionate share of power for the white minority. Carter thus had a moral reason when he decided not to lift the economic sanctions that prevent the U.S. from buying Rhodesian chrome. Politically, moreover, the maintaining of sanctions puts the U.S. on the side of black Africa...
...somehow manage to emerge. About halfway into Hanover Street, both of the heroine's men end up on the same-secret intelligence mission behind enemy lines in France. Things get tense. Who will live and who will die? Who will run across a crowded hospital ward to embrace fair Margaret by the final credits? Will the Nazis cut off Fortnum & Mason's supply of Twinings English Breakfast Tea? And, if so, will Ovaltine suffice? Hanover Street's answers to these questions tend to be tough, but no one ever said that war was a picnic...
...mumbled so effectively through two Godfathers on-screen turns Shakespeare's "bunch-back'd toad" into a smarmy caricature villain out of silent movies and old comic strips; he personifies the sort of dastard who forecloses the mortgage on the family farm and threatens the virtue of fair young damsels...
...have a problem in getting a fair return on buildings we have leased," Michael F. Brewer, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, said last week. He added that University real estate officials are trying to find a new home for the store...
...scarce supplies of diesel and heating oil as Americans are, and they too get deliveries from the Caribbean refineries. The Carter Administration claims that the Europeans' panicky, pay-any-price mentality has lured so much Caribbean production to the Continent that U.S. importers are no longer receiving their fair share. The Europeans retort angrily that Washington's subsidies are just pushing up prices even higher and that the U.S. is actually getting all the oil that it normally does in the first place...