Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cash (a 1979 budget of $300,000) but high on idealism, Commoner and his colleagues plan a national convention early next year and hope to nominate a presidential candidate. Said he: "We do not intend to be a third party nibbling away at the crumbs left over by the other two parties. We're going to challenge them for their existence...
County officials hope the mistake will work in their favor, on the somewhat shaky grounds that the absurdity of Proposition .004 will defeat it. Taxcutter Wilson, feeling a bit as though he had been put through the mill, twice asked the courts to allow people to vote on what he meant and not on what he said, and was turned down both times by judges who reasoned that the people knew what they were signing...
...solving an explosive issue that threatened to wreck the conference-namely, the problem of how to bring genuine majority rule to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. After arriving in Lusaka "with two horns and a tail," as she put it, Britain's new Prime Minister had suddenly become a symbol of hope...
...with U.S. encouragement, are trying to find a new formula that would both reaffirm the U.N.'s landmark Resolution 242 of 1967, which implicitly affirms Israel's right to exist, and in addition endorse the Palestinians' legitimate political rights. The Arabs, and the Administration as well, hope that such a formulation might at last allow the P.L.O. to at least tacitly recognize Israel as a bona fide state. This in turn would enable Washington to drop its longstanding boycott of the P.L.O. and open a direct dialogue with it. The Administration's first goal then, would...
...President's position swung full circle since he backed the deadweight Shah in the showdown in Iran a few months ago. In an act of rare decisiveness, Carter made it clear to President Anastasio Somoza that despite his appeals, the only aid he could hope for from the U.S. was as a refuge...