Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cold grits. Says Richard Dick, a high Virginia Democrat: "Kennedy's coattails in this state would work like a noose, strangling our candidates." The first real showdown may come when both candidates face off outside their home regions, in Illinois on March 18. The challenger got a significant lift for that battle last week when Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, previously a Carter supporter, gave word that she was switching and will back Kennedy...
Resupply Capabilities. According to General Jones, "In any large operation or full-blown conflict short of a nuclear exchange, lift becomes a very critical factor." He feels that the Pentagon's ability to resupply troops rapidly on the battlefield is "one of the areas in which we run into limitations early." Though the Air Force would have sufficient planes to rush troops overseas, including requisitioned commercial airliners, it would not have enough to take along-their arms and equipment...
...then had to embark on negotiations whose success seemed doubtful to many observers from the outset. A breakdown in the tripartite talks, which came perilously close last week, would have involved tremendous risks. Britain would then have been virtually obliged to recognize the cooperative Muzorewa regime, lift sanctions and oversee elections without Patriotic Front participation. That course would not only have angered the front-line and Commonwealth states, it could also have provoked an escalation of the war and possible intervention by Communist bloc countries and South Africa. But by facing down the guerrillas last week, Carrington...
...without us to talk to the Salisbury group, it confirmed our suspicions: Lord Carrington just wants to show the world an acceptable constitution and then say that the Patriotic Front is refusing to implement this reasonable document because the interim arrangements are not to its satisfaction. They want to lift sanctions and pass legislation for a government that will play their tune. This is what I call the law of Moses. Carrington is the type of man who believes he can make no mistakes; he can only deal with the Muzorewas who love that treatment. If we get into...
...visit to Washington last week, is that OPEC has "lost control" of price levels. It is now up to the oil-consuming nations to limit price increases by curbing demand. Yamani's point is well taken. The only reason that Libya and Iran have been able to lift prices so much so soon is that, despite an international agreement earlier this year to curb imports, demand for oil continues to grow at a time when Iran's internal problems and lack of technical expertise threaten supply cuts at any moment. In the first eight months of this year...