Word: fray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already the President's new security blanket is beginning to fray at the edges. The ordeal of Richard Nixon ?and the nation?is far from over...
...fighting increased, Premier Amin Hafez gave in to Franjieh's demands and declared a state of emergency, effectively giving the mostly Christian army control over the country. The next day, as Lebanese jet fighter-bombers joined the fray for the second week in a row, Hafez resigned. A Moslem, he had been in office only 13 days and had replaced Saeb Salam, another Moslem, who resigned after last month's Israeli attacks...
This breath-taking policy change, however, was lost in the fray over the specifics of the Corporation's decision, followed as it was a scant 12 hours later by the Mass Hall takeover. Instead of endorsing the PALC-Afro divestiture proposal, the Corporation announced its own strategy: it had already pressured Gulf to make the disclosure called for in the proxy motion, and it would send an adviser to Africa to obtain first hand information on the specifics of Gulf's role there. It also asked Gulf to set forth a plan for the Corporation's further improving its employment...
...Harvard's reluctance to enter any anti-management fray may have stemmed from more than the quest for "academic" neutrality. The Austin Committee also reported on potential conflicts of interest which the treasurer could face...
Meanwhile a few newspaper publishers have joined the fray finally, taking upon themselves liability for the protection of sources used by their own reporters. In many instances now, the publisher, not the reporter, is the one who will be held in contempt of court if a court order to violate confidentiality is ignored, and there is a lot of difference between sending Punch Sulzberger to jail and sending one of the 300 reporters in his employ...