Word: impor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restoration of diplomatic and trade ties. In three days of talks, Church and Castro discussed a wide range of issues-including Castro's desire to get the U.S. trade embargo lifted-on which the Senator is expected to report back to Carter. Castro had promised he had something impor tant to offer Church-and so he did. Eighty-four American citizens and their families will be permitted to leave Cuba (the Americans had previously been free to go but not their Cuban wives and children). Castro also released the crews of two Miami-based boats (including the nephew...
...overuse. Heavy institutional users of copiers could also replace their hares with tortoises; slower machines are generally cheaper to operate any way. To conserve paper - and trees - manufacturers could provide more recycled paper for their machines. And, of course, a little personal self-control would help; copying a marginally impor tant document does not diminish its superfluity one bit. And who really enjoys receiving Xeroxed Christmas greetings...
...pretty romantic proposition, especially for a man who had dedicated himself to abolishing every article of romantic faith. But Brecht knew well, and portrayed with ruthless accuracy, the inbred conservatism of power, the stale air of the cloister that can smother the free, creative spirit. What makes Galileo impor tant, finally, is its ironic accounting of the price of compromise and even of freedom...
Longtime Gladiator. There, for the most part, the similarities end. A longtime gladiator in the public arena, Myrdal served in the Swedish Parliament in the 1930s and was an impor tant architect of the Swedish Labor Party's welfare state. He was his country's Commerce Minister from 1945 to 1947 and head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe for ten years after that. He is a considerably more familiar figure than his fellow laureate, largely because of two major works published nearly a quarter-century apart. While a professor at the Uni versity of Stockholm...
...plain below, where fruit trees were blossoming in contrast to the snow above, the fighting on the mountain was already having a profound political effect. Syria's President Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able...