Word: hardens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called for a cease-fire in-place throughout Indochina, and a withdrawal of U.S. troops within four months after release of American P.O.W.s, leaving the political issues to be settled by the Vietnamese themselves. If Nixon were to win a second term, Kissinger argued, the Administration offer could well harden. In September, by the reckoning of intelligence analysts in Washington, the polls began to convince the Hanoi Politburo that a victory by McGovern, who has proposed that the U.S. should "break free of Thieu" with a unilateral withdrawal, was a poor gamble...
...principal lifeline: business. With Chinese acquiescence, at least for now, Japan intends to keep its economic ties with Taiwan, which is still a bigger market (more than $760 million a year) for Japanese goods than China ($578 million). But Taiwan's trade arteries to Japan could eventually harden, with serious implications for the regime's viability. In a gesture of spite, thinly masked as a move to reduce Taiwan's $600 million Japanese trade deficit, Taipei ordered importers to begin shopping in Europe and the U.S. for machinery and other materials they used to buy in Japan...
...asset to any sales campaign, the West German subsidiary of Japanese Fuji Film wanted a naked woman to adorn one of their five ads in Stern, West Germany's second largest illustrated weekly (circ. 1,600,000). Admen Günther-Jürgen Bahr and Claus Harden of Düsseldorf winced. Nudes are so common in German magazines that Fuji's ad would look like any other page in Stern. How to get the reader to look twice? Bahr and Harden's answer: a nude with a difference-"fat but nice." They assigned...
...only way McGovern might now be denied the nomination, many Democrats felt, was for him to adopt such intransigent positions before the credentials and platform committees that his momentum would abruptly halt, and the uncommitted delegates would harden against him. According to this scenario, he would so antagonize party regulars that his delegates would freeze at 1,300, denying him a first-ballot victory. Then a hemorrhage might begin, with his delegates leaking away to Muskie or Humphrey or a dark horse. But to deny the nomination to a man who had accumulated 1,300 or more delegates through...
Dear Dr. Kissinger, Just about everyone here in Tokyo will be relieved to finally see you step off that plane that seems to have become your second home. Still another postponement of your first visit to Japan since moving into the White House would harden the Japanese suspicion that you attach no urgency at all to the U.S.'s relations with the world's third economic power. Through Japan's photochemical smog, you'll be seeing a paradoxical country where islands of quiet and beauty coexist with urban sprawl, and where modernization has never meant Westernization...