Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Begin lashed back at Sadat's suspension of the talks as "incomprehensible" and insisted that Israel would have to agree on when and where negotiations should resume. The cause of the latest flap was an apparent misunderstanding by Sadat of some doings in the Israeli Knesset...
Nearly all the new research reports dealt with biochemistry and kindred disciplines. Faced with competition from nonmedical therapists, psychiatrists are clearly flocking back to their medical roots. In fact, the ERA furor provided the main relief from biology and chemistry. Stirred by the flap, Author Barbara Ehrenreich tossed away her text ("Work and Love: Can Women Have Both?") and lectured psychiatrists on their failures. Said she: "Psychiatric theory said that women could find fulfillment only through a life of child bearing and domesticity." That argument, though overstated, helped bring the change...
...George has had enough this time, and he's left for good--a free man, armed with his latest invention, an envelope with gum on both sides of the flap. At the pub, Harry the horseplayer and the dopey seaman Able (from the new navy) play on George's wild dreams until they convince him that he, with Harry, can revolutionize the envelope industry. Soon George derails again, wanders into the past in a monologue, and we return to the Riley home, a place where, as George explains, "I give nothing, I gain nothing, it is nothing...
Then came the debates. In the first one, including all seven candidates, Reagan seemed stiff and ill at ease, but his private polls told him that he came across well, that the tide was already turning. He did even better in the furious flap over a Reagan-Bush debate the Saturday night before the primary. Reagan had challenged Bush to a one-on-one debate, sponsored by the Nashua, N.H., Telegraph, then agreed to pay the tab and artfully invited in four other candidates, Anderson, Baker, Crane and Dole. The Telegraph refused to change the rules for the debate, despite...