Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet leader on the Angola situation. Perhaps significantly, however, they said that the U.S. will watch closely in the coming weeks to see if the Soviet leaders exert pressure on Fidel Castro's Cuba to withdraw any of its 10,000 troops, which have helped the M.P.L.A. gain the upper hand against two U.S.-backed factions (see THE WORLD...
...nations to disaster. They "destroy, in the name of socialism, political democracy and install systems that are neither democratic nor socialist and that are, to boot, economically and humanely very inferior to capitalism." One step on that road to destruction, Revel warns, is the popular front. Through it, Communists gain a respite in their struggle with the right when the right is too strong for direct confrontation; they also frustrate the building of a reformist bloc by splitting its potential members be tween one side or the other...
...this riddle is "Book" according to R.K. Gordon, although there seems to be evidence that it is "Blue Book" (thus the work belongs to the literature of the exam period). But clearly we can see how the Anglo-Saxons believed that using a book, or reading it would gain the owner of the book virtual immortality (modern scholars have quibbled over the phrase, "use me," some contending it means simply "put on an expansive shelf," and not "read...
Whatever the outcome of the debate, the P.L.O. is bound to gain from it. The very fact that a representative of the group will take part in the talks enhances the P.L.O.'s drive for international respectability. Ever since the P.L.O. was recognized as the "sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people by the Rabat Summit in October 1974-followed a month later by the triumphal appearance at the General Assembly of Yasser Arafat-the P.L.O. has scored impressive diplomatic successes. Its representatives are accepted as de facto "ambassadors" by some 100 countries and international organizations. At his Beirut...
...inflation and recession in industrialized countries. But the attempt simply did not work, and now the policy is being quietly shelved. The U.S. Government has decided that it cannot beat the cartel and that, as a result, it may just as well learn to live with it-perhaps even gain politically from its existence. Assistant Treasury Secretary Gerald Parsky sums up the new mood: "Breaking up OPEC would be detrimental to the direction in which we want...