Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Washington and is directly responsible for three other sets of negotiations. The result is that he has been able to attend only about 25% of the SALT sessions in Geneva. In Warnke's absence, the U.S. "working level" negotiators are led by Ambassador Earle, 49, a lawyer and former Pentagon official who has been a full-time member of the SALT delegation for five years. His current job, says Earle, "is a little bit like being a trial lawyer, except it means going to trial constantly, a number of times...
...High-level officials in Washington believe that there are a number of reasons why Sadat decided to dig in his heels. In addition to his deep personal antipathy toward Begin, Sadat has grown increasingly impatient over Israeli stalling and U.S. reluctance to put forth a plan of its own, which Cairo thinks would serve to pressure Israel into some concessions. The most important factor, however, is believed to be a new Saudi Arabian campaign for Arab unity, aimed at reconciling Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, who broke with Egypt over Sadat's visit to Jerusalem last November...
...office normally attained by all young men in the clergyless church. Previously the Mormons had denied the office to "Africans." The change will give blacks celestial benefits. Priests can "seal" their marriages for eternity in the temple. This, in turn, means they can aspire to the highest level in the multitiered Mormon heaven after they die. Thus Phone Repairman Joseph Freeman, 25, who became the first known black in the priesthood in the 20th century, was able to seal his marriage. Several dozen U.S. blacks are-expected to follow Freeman's example...
Under Secretary of the Treasury Anthony Solomon managed to be upbeat, suggesting that fewer dollars would be pouring overseas in the future, because the weakening economy is now starting to drag down the U.S. growth rate to a level closer to that of the rest of the world. The reasoning is in sharp contrast to the White House's yearlong drive to persuade West Germany and Japan to pump up their economies rather than to have the U.S. rely on a slowing of its own; and it is typical of the wavering signals that the Administration has been sending...
...wafer sorters and probe-card repair technicians; meanwhile, the company is turning down orders for lack of workers. Synerteck needs ion implanters, who manipulate control panels to change the electrical properties of silicon. Fairchild Camera and Hewlett-Packard both have hundreds of positions available that cut across every level of skill. Avantek has an eye out for janitors interested in profit sharing...