Word: helping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Byrd did not receive explicit assurances from the Soviets, he believes that they would acquiesce to some reservations to help get the treaty through the Senate. What Moscow could do is make a distinction between substantial changes to the actual text of the treaty and reservations or understandings attached to the Senate's Resolution of Ratification, the parliamentary instrument by which the upper chamber approves treaties. U.S. legal practice makes no such distinction: understandings and reservations are just as binding on both parties to an accord as an amendment to the treaty itself. But the Soviets might...
...SALT II treaty in the Senate. It is my opinion that if there were a vote today, the Senate probably would not approve the SALT II treaty. But much can happen between now and the final vote." Byrd then made his first suggestion: "It would be a significant help in the area of verification if we could have an indication that you could agree to notification-on a voluntary basis-in advance of all ICBM test launches. Such a step would undoubtedly have a favorable impact on the Senate debate...
...short run, they will have a beneficial result, which will help us to finance our development. But no country today can have a sound and healthy development if the rest of the world is not sound and healthy. Therefore we know that in the long run the inflationary impact of the price of oil and the recession in the industrialized countries will also hurt...
...daring or desperate who bought two years ago are smiling now, but the cautious are weeping and wailing. Young couples are acquiring their first homes earlier in life-more often than before with family financial help-partly as a hedge against further inflation. Even with the new graduated payment mortgages that allow lower monthly outlays in the first few years, many people are dangerously overextending themselves. Says Norris Allman, 27, an engineer in New Jersey: "We finally made a decision that either we buy now or we would never be able to afford...
...refuses to quit as a director of Stevens. The union is stirring up activist groups against Sea men's by pointing out that the bank makes most of its mortgage loans to borrowers outside metropolitan New York. The ACTWU has also enlisted political, labor and religious groups to help block the bank from opening a branch on Long Is land...