Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SALT ceilings because it does not have the range at present to attack the U.S. The U.S. argues that it could be adapted for long-range use and wants written restrictions on its deployment. Vance believes this is a political problem and must be handled at the presidential level...
...plane made summitry casual. Summitry has personalized diplomacy, settled more responsibility on the men and women at the top. "At that level, decisions are all personal," former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said. "And how they are made and who makes them does make a difference." By one globetrotting diplomat's count, Carter went to Bonn with real support only from, Britain's Prime Minister Callaghan. The sentiment of the other five ranged from doubt to contempt...
...also one of the fastest players around, while Korchnoi is very slow; he has lost matches for failing to make the stipulated 40 moves in five hours of play. In Baguio City, the first player to win six games takes the match; since draws are frequent in top-level play, the men will need both ample patience and stamina. To keep in shape, Korchnoi jogs daily; his diet includes health foods and Iranian caviar-of which he has imported enough to last 30 games. Karpov, whom one observer likened to "a Boy Scout," swims, rows and does calisthenics...
Marshall R. Pihl, associate director of the Summer School, said yesterday that it came as no surprise that introductory-level courses again lead in total enrollment...
Harold Rome's music has an infectious amiability and moves the show along on dancing feet, though the level of choreography is primitive. Rome's lyrics achieve something that is perhaps rarer than wit, a good humor that arises from compassionate fellow feeling...