Word: host
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...negotiation. Twenty of the 24 members of the Organization of American States blasted the trade act as "discriminatory and coercive." Last week Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes announced that his country was postponing "indefinitely" the March meeting of OAS foreign ministers. Vignes was partly motivated by a reluctance to host a conference whose outcome-on the question of regularizing relations between the hemisphere and Fidel Castro's Cuba-was likely to fail. But the trade act gave him a handy excuse...
Television viewers who tuned into ABC's new talk show AM America recently learned from Co-Host Stephanie Edwards that it just happened to be Millard Fillmore's birthday. On his NBC show, Johnny Carson from time to time reminds his audience that it is, say, Patrick Henry's birthday or Lily of the Valley Day in Luxembourg...
Radcliffe's swim team traveled across town to Boston College to participate in the Greater Boston Championships last night and swam away with a narrow 494-493 first-place finish. The host squad, the Boston College Eagles, finished second to the victorious Crimson...
Last week Giscard finally did go to dinner, and the first family selected to play host to France's First Family turned out to be that of Claude Cucchiarini. A Parisian picture framer, Cucchiarini had done some work for the President and casually invited him over. Still, he could not have been more surprised when one of Giscard's top aides phoned three weeks ago and advised that the Giscards had accepted. The only request: keep it secret, keep it simple and don't hire any outside help...
Ylvisaker told the conference's organizers on January 16 the Ed School would not host the event after Jean S. Chall, the professor of Education who heads the reading programs, wrote him to say she had moral objections to participating in the conference...