Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought that if the organization was being neglected by Arab moderates it had only itself to blame. Washington had stated that some gesture of recognition toward Israel could lead to dialogue. Overplaying its hand, the P.L.O. had refused to make any such gesture, thereby losing a golden opportunity to gain wider international recognition...
Precedents exist for such limitations on sovereignty. In 1955 Austria agreed to remain neutral and to limit the strength of its military in order to gain independence from the occupying powers (U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union). Japan's constitution allows only for self-defense forces that cannot be used in aggressive acts...
...sell Yankee bonds to individual investors. The big buyers have been the large institutional investors-insurance companies, pension trusts and mutual funds. So far they have done well: a study by Salomon Bros, shows that in the first nine months of 1977 one group of Yankee bonds returned actual gains (interest plus price appreciation) of 5% to 8.7%, v. a 2.3% gain on competitive longterm, high-grade U.S. corporate bonds. The stock market suffered serious losses over the same period. But, even though foreign bonds are outperforming competing investments, there are limits to how many more of them some...
Velikovksy, who had practiced psychoanalysis before studying the history of man and the cosmos, first introduced himself to the physical science community when he sought out Professor Harlow Shapley, then director of the Harvard Observatory, to gain comment on and an evaluation of his concept of cataclysmic history. Shapley refused to read it. Despite his ignorance of Velikovsky's detailed arguments, Shapley nevertheless felt sufficiently informed to tell a colleague--who had read Velikovsky's work--that Velikovsky's conclusions were "pretty obviously based on incompetent data." When MacMillan published Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950, Shapley...
...Were and will throng to Oliver's Story. Nevertheless, a fairly realistic, sobering message about the inherent disillusionment in first loves manages--barely--to emerge. If you can sit through the movie without sliding out of your seat in fits of hysterics, then you may even gain a few insights that will serve as a warning if you have never been in love or offer a little perspective if you have...