Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat proposal gave no ground either. It called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces and settlements from both territories, under the supervision of the United Nations. In a five-year transition period, during which a final agreement would be negotiated, the West Bank would be under Jordanian authority and Gaza returned to Egyptian protection. The plan also demanded the return of East Jerusalem to Arab authority; the Arab section of the Holy City has been formally merged with Israeli West Jerusalem since...
...kidnaping and ransom) insurance policies sold by Lloyd's of London and some oth er companies, including several U.S. firms. Insurance officials do not speak much about this business, fearing that more countries will follow Italy in banning K and R policies on the ground that they encourage kidnapings. But some brokers say that sales of such policies on the London insurance market alone have more than doubled in the past two years, with as much as 70% of Lloyd's K and R business coming from American multinationals. The insurers commonly require the client corporation to exercise...
...Rivbea sounds Rivers' own extended free-form music: "Spontaneous on-the-spot creation and improvisation." Perhaps the most vital avant-garde spawning ground of all is Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a collective that was created in 1965. It encompasses all styles from straight African rhythms to bebop to the avant-garde's specialty: grunts and wails and bizarre instrumental effects that were ignored during bebop's preoccupation with fluency and speed. A.A.C.M.'s alumni include two emerging jazz stars: Saxophonist Anthony Braxton, 33, and Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams...
...possible to make a long list of Frank's sources and assimilations. The splayed, unideal awkwardness of the figures, and the way they appear half buried in the ground, can be traced to Degas's bronzes. The softly modeled, bulbous heads with their almost genital mouths come straight out of Picasso in the early '30s, as does the sense of cubist rotation; and so forth. But such a catalogue would not take account of Frank's originality...
...problem is one of balance," Powell once said, referring to the conflict between the rights of suspects and the need for law-and-order. Says J. Harvie Wilkinson, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who once clerked for Powell: "By temperament, he tries to find common ground among varying points of view." Powell hates to be categorized as liberal or conservative. Says he: "Not one of us is a prisoner of blind prejudices...