Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtual halt. To rekindle the peace initiative and avert a deterioration that could lead to war, Carter invited Begin and Sadat to Camp David. For the first time, the President said, the U.S. would become a "full partner" in seeking to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. "My hope," he added, "is that this degree of personal interchange ... will be constructive." But, he conceded, "the prospects for complete success are very remote. Compromises will be mandatory. Flexibility will be the essence of our hopes...
...knowledge. But the cops need a corroborating witness, and it doesn't look like they're about to get one, does it?" The FBI, according to Brill, has been playing a persistent and patient game, trying to get evidence against the suspects on other charges in the hope that one of them will talk in return for leniency...
...ways to calm his troubled people. His son, Crown Prince Reza, now in advance fighter-pilot training in Texas, telephoned his father and suggested that he try a dialogue with his opponents. It may have been good advice. With his country under martial law, the Shah's best hope now is to turn forthrightly toward the elusive, and in his case potentially hazardous, goal of democracy. If he sticks to his own target date for parliamentary elections next June, he may still be able to guarantee his future by yielding some of his absolute rule and compromising on a constitutional...
...many months, the American retributive gland has grown more and more inflamed. A few weeks ago, Robert Jones, 36, stood before the bench in a Chicago courtroom, having just been sentenced to 100 to 300 years in prison for murdering two brothers in a robbery. A voice boomed: "I hope you die in prison!" It was not one of the victims' family or the prosecutor who cried out; it was the judge...
...would knock a full percentage point off next year's inflation rate. But the delays would so anger-labor and old people that the Administration is not expected to ask for them. Most likely it will merely pass the word that it is not opposed to delays and hope that this signal will be enough to move Congress...