Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search for a Middle East peace formula intensifies, Israel is coming under increasing attack from friends as well as foes. The complaint: Jerusalem is too rigid and hawkish. Last week, for example, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat proposed that Israeli troops pull back from the Suez Canal; Egyptian troops would occupy the canal's east bank, and Cairo would reinstitute a formal ceasefire. The suggestion was greeted suspiciously by Israel, which is adamant against Egyptian troops crossing the canal under such terms...
Once and for all, declared the press releases, the $288,900 Questor Grand Prix would decide the burning question: "Can brute American power beat effete European technology?" Can, in other words, the growling Formula A racing cars that are prepared in the U.S. hold their own against the sleek little Formula One machines from the international Grand Prix circuit...
Convincing Hanoi. But Laos is only a symptom of Nixon's larger problem. Time may, as the White House believes, work to the allies' benefit in Viet Nam, but it works against the Administration at home. Nixon's formula for U.S. withdrawal is inherently schizophrenic-widening the war in order to end it, persuading the nation that he is committed to withdrawal while convincing Hanoi that the U.S. means to stay just as long as necessary to protect the South Vietnamese government. But the time may not be far off when Americans will decide that an endlessly...
...kind of Republican. The presents people brought had a lot in common-stuffed elephants and teething rings, diaper pins and diapers decorated with the Confederate flag, a copy of Winnie-the-Pooh. There was ice cream, of course, and a jar of wheat germ labeled "Strom's secret formula." Thurmond's second wife, 24, is about to present the 68-year-old Senator with his first child. Said he modestly: "I feel very honored...
...civil rights; in that area Jackson boasts one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate. He also takes issue with Nixon on economic policies. On revenue sharing: "The Nixon Administration is misleading the states and cities into thinking they are going to get something." On inflation: "Their formula to lick high prices is to see that no one has the money to pay them." The Republican Party, he says in summation, "is a museum of threadbare ideas...