Word: fait
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Hayes said his group presented the proposal to extend the moratorium to the council earlier this week as a fait accompli, "but if the mayor wants to say he's responsible, that's o.k. with...
Powerful Wall Streeters began looking for a replacement last year. One who was considered: Melvin Laird. Two weeks ago, Batten was persuaded to take over the chairmanship while Needham was in Europe. When Needham returned early last week, he was presented with a fait accompli. He resigned. His successor Batten may well be only a caretaker chairman. Among candidates to succeed him eventually: Paul Kolton, current chairman of the American Stock Exchange and Donald Marron, the brilliant (IQ: 190) chief of Mitchell, Hutchins, a Wall Street brokerage house. Needham plans to stay on as a consultant to Batten...
Since the Middle East belongs in the an-tagonistic half of detente, a successful intervention would present the Soviets with a fait accompli difficult to undo or even challenge without bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. Politically, Russian credibility would take a severe beating. Not only would Russian allies, Syria and Iraq, be sandwiched by the Israelis on one side and the Americans on the other, but the value of a Russian connection would be thrown into doubt throughout the region. According to this view, a decisive show of force in the Gulf would go a long...
...FORD administration's insistence on continuing military and diplomatic intervention in Angola despite Senate opposition represents a deplorable refusal to submit foreign policy to properly informed public opinion. The covert character of early U.S. aid in Angola was a deliberate effort to present the American public with a fait accompli. Although American intervention has now been made public, Ford and Kissinger continue to repudiate any notion of democratic participation in foreign policy decision making by their use of discretionary funds to aid anti-MPLA factions. The House should reaffirm the Senate's opposition to such aid in its upcoming session...
...whole issue of the report being a fait accompli was a thing which arose in the anger of the moment," he added. "People were infuriated by the talk that the board of trustees liked the report before it was submitted to the faculty--besides, the trustees are not a group of right-wing fascists...