Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Talbott's weaknesses as a writer are revealed by his heavy reliance on anecdotes which he uses to spice up his sometimes detailed and statistical approach. While some of the stories are snappy--and help the otherwise plodding text move along--others read like a hyped-up version of The President's Plane is Missing. When he recounts a bargaining exrhange between former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, he builds his narrative to the point where the two are talking about the relative effectiveness of the B-1 and B-52 bombers...
Women cannot advance as people unless men also help to solve the problems of sexual inequality, author and sociologist Betty Freidan told a crowd of about 850 at the ARCO Forum last night...
...When American companies go in to help countries recover from wars and learn to thrive in peace, it's a pretty tough diplomatic act to beat." So said Robert Strauss last week on his third trip to Israel and Egypt since being appointed President Carter's special Middle East envoy last April. This time the shuttling Texan took with him eleven U.S.businessmen. His aim: to foster the sort of investment in the area that would help to cement the Camp David agreements with tangible economic benefits...
...with U.S. electronic and computer firms. But Egypt is considerably less developed and more populous (41 million vs. Israel's 4 million) and thus offers both a large market and great opportunity. Egypt needs many small-scale investments, in the $5 million to $10 million range, just to help produce such basics as food, clothing and shelter...
...exporting some of his sophisticated gear to replace the ox-drawn pulleys widely used in rural areas. Samuel Miller, vice chairman of Forest City Enterprises Inc., a Cleveland-based homebuilder that makes low-cost housing units, is considering a joint venture with Egyptian Construction Magnate Osman Ahmed Osman to help alleviate Cairo's chronic housing problems. Several American clothing manufacturers are pondering partnerships to provide new equipment for Egypt's tattered textile concerns. Donald Shorr, a vice president of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes, was along last week to look into partnership possibilities to produce shirts and suits...