Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also, Alfred A. DelliBovi, administrator of the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration, has backed off from a commitment made by his predecessor. The former chief, Ralph Stanley, had said the project would be given top consideration for funding if the state paid 50 percent of the cost...
...that in South Africa. In the first place, if Israel was similar to South Africa, we would not be subjected to bias in the press, because the foreign press would be banned altogether. The Israeli army is controlling an occupation it never wanted. Arabs in democratic Israel are given equal citizenship and voting rights and Jews. Whereas the goal of Zionism is peace and equality with the Arabs, that of apartheid is suppression of an "inferior" race. Have the Afrikaaners been oppressive because there haven't been any legitimate Black leaders willing to negotiate with them? Is Moses comparing...
...keeping, U.N.-controlled territory? The United Nations already regards Jerusalem as an international city, and the U.S. Embassy is located in Tel Aviv. Moses's plan seems to rid Israel of internal strife by reducing the size of the country by one-third. Palestinians under Arab rule are not given jobs or an education, as they are under Israeli occupation today. A Palestinian state would not be able to support itself from within and would become a puppet for terrorist factions...
...Dali wrote a cook book, the Chinese painter Ta Chien is the only modern artist to make it to the common menu, with the Szechwan specialty Ta Chien chicken. Through menu notes I have learned over the years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
...traffic situation is equally strange. On any given day, you might see daredevil stunt drivers wearing hats and smoking cigars gunning their Cadillac Eldorados to speeds of 35 M.P.H. and beyond. You hear lots of horn-honking; the younger residents, their fuses cut to the quick, are simply venting their frustration and rage at the latest senile driving snafu. These people must nurse elaborate fantasies involving grey heads and sinister implements of torture...