Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter's 54th birthday, and the mood of celebration was upon him. Even before the birthday itself, some 1,000 of the Democratic Party faithful paid $1,000 a plate to join the President in the crowded Washington Hilton ballroom. Leaning forward to admire his multitiered birthday cake, Carter accidentally shoved a hand into the pastry, but nothing could faze him. He simply waved a dripping hand to his admirers. Carter called the affair "the most successful presidential Democratic fund raiser in the history of the U.S.," and he assured the gathering: "We're taking control...
...should join the trend toward more managed exchange rates, something of a compromise between fixed and floating rates. World central banks would have to cooperate closely, buying and selling currencies in order to keep the rates within certain ranges. Former Under Secretary of the Treasury Robert V. Roosa says that a first step toward this arrangement would be to set up "reasonable ranges of value for the three key currencies - the dollar, mark and yen." Other currencies would quickly fall into line behind the big three. The IMF could monitor national economic activity and recommend when currency values should...
...battlefield toll mounted, hopes for a negotiated transition to black majority rule dimmed. The secret contacts in Zambia through which Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had hoped to persuade Guerrilla Leader Joshua Nkomo to join the multiracial interim government collapsed last month, after Smith accused Nkomo's men of slaughtering ten defenseless survivors from a civilian passenger plane shot down by the guerrillas. Discouraged U.S. diplomats conceded that the massacre had also dealt an all but fatal blow to the joint British-American plan for a peaceful Rhodesian settlement. As Nkomo has recently warned, "The only way left...
...join in the sorrow at the passing of the Pope, we also hope that the Church he headed will continue in the style he adopted. The selection of a new Pope who shuns the pomp and formality of ancient tradition, and instead addresses the pressing social and religious issues of the day, would be the best way to fulfill the bright promise of John Paul's reign...
...practice embraced 200,000 Brazilian villagers along the Amazon River; of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope...