Word: leading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack materializes, Somoza is not likely to lead it. At week's end the exiled dictator was reportedly expelled from the Bahamian island of Grand Exuma, his latest port of call on a Caribbean cruise...
...breakthrough came after Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere called on Britain to take the lead in proposing a new Rhodesian constitution, calling an all-parties conference and holding new elections under Commonwealth auspices...
...would be to bring Palestinians, perhaps even some P.L.O. officials, into the talks between the Israelis and the Egyptians on the future of the West Bank and Gaza. This would greatly help Washington's effort to prove to skeptical Arab governments that the Egyptian-Israeli agreement can indeed lead to a comprehensive Middle East peace deal...
Department of Agriculture economists contended that the Soviet sales would not lead to a repeat of the 1972 episode, when the Soviets secretly bought nearly 20 million metric tons of U.S. grain and sent domestic food prices through the roof. Under a bilateral grain treaty, the Soviets cannot buy more than 8 million metric tons unless the U.S. has extra supplies. Since stockpiles are ample and a near record harvest is in view, the department's chief economist estimated that the huge Soviet purchases would add only .2% to the cost of living index...
...movies about subteen hookers did not, as some people feared, lead to a succession of increasingly pornographic feature films starring moppets...