Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harrowing prospect: the students who are products of this period of lowered standards, chronic absenteeism and general apathy will be tomorrow's teachers...
...other prospective guests also agreed-somewhat reluctantly-to attend the Cairo summit. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said his organization would be represented by Finnish General Ensio Siilasvuo, chief of U.N. peace-keeping operations in the Middle East. Since he expected that the Cairo conference would have "limited participation," Waldheim suggested yet another preparatory conference under U.N. auspices. Israel said it would not attend, primarily because the P.L.O. was also invited. But other Arab states were more receptive to the idea, as was the Soviet Union. That raised the intriguing prospect that Israel and the U.S. might eventually stand...
...fact, the U.S. has been at least half a step behind these events, and the Administration's response to them has been confused. For example, Sadat told U.S. Ambassador in Cairo Hermann Eilts in a general way about his plans for a pre-Geneva conference to help clear up procedural problems. Eilts urgently passed the message to Washington. But before Carter and his policy advisers had a chance to assess the ploy and reply, Eilts learned that Sadat was planning to propose such a conference in a speech to Egypt's national assembly. A message was dispatched...
...another move aimed at placating Americans and Europeans, Japan's Ambassador to Geneva last week told a meeting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that his country is "actively considering" unilaterally reducing tariffs on a broad range of goods, including computers, color films and processed foods. Japan's trading partners have long griped that, while they buy heavily from Japan, Japanese markets are effectively closed to many goods that they want to sell...
...played in my life. We have talked, not just about my sexuality, but also about his, at some length. He is sympathetic and interested, open and unworried. To some extent he is even protective--he would take personal offense, I think, if someone were to attack homosexuality in general, or my homosexuality in particular. My experience with him convinces me that while ignorance of homosexuality is almost universal among straights, even at educated Harvard, and while ignorance often appears as unwitting viciousness, behind the ignorance can be compassion, or a capability...