Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the South African military mission in Washington, and the statement that "the State Department flatly refused to deny the charges" [April 23]. May we conclude that the U.S. emphatically insists on being guilty? Since when is it the prerogative of the Carter Administration to decide who should join the nuclear club...
...ability as a national leader. Even now his personal prestige could hardly be more completely on the line. He phoned Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger last week, offering them extensive private briefings on the accord. (So far, none of these Republican notables has offered to join the pro-treaty drive.) On the morning that the U.S.-Soviet agreement was announced, Carter was up at dawn to sign letters to all 100 Senators, assuring them that SALT II will reduce the danger of nuclear war. He intends to speak out frequently for the treaty and lobby Senators...
...Massachusetts. Prospects for passage in the full Senate and House are doubtful, but, if enacted, the bill would overturn a 1977 Supreme Court decision. Not only could middlemen and retailers sue and collect treble damages from a company for antitrust violations, but so too could individual consumers who join together in class actions. Businessmen fear that the bill would engulf many companies in harassment suits. Often, such suits amount to little more than blackmail: plaintiffs know that companies would rather agree to an expensive out-of-court settlement than endure years of costly litigation...
...York Times that mentioned his alleged gangland ties. "You are a goddam liar," Sinatra telegraphed Safire, who printed the singer's denial in a subsequent column but stuck by his original story. In a letter accompanying Kampelman's article, Sinatra urges his readers to join with him in "reminding the press that there is more to the Constitution ... than the First Amendment it so frequently hides behind...
...rode the Tide to the top at Procter & Gamble and in 1972 floated over to become chief executive of one of its major chemical suppliers, Monsanto Co. Now Hanley, 57, is hard-selling a provocative idea: that technology could leap ahead if two basic but often distant institutions would join forces. Those two are U.S. universities and U.S. corporations...