Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December Brzezinski provided him with a thick black dossier. Brzezinski declines to discuss the specifics of that report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework for wider global accommodation." This, along with European defense concerns, will presumably be one of the main topics when Carter meets late this week with his chief European allies-British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe...
...security was so tight, visitors spent most of the afternoon at the airport terminal. At one point, even the open-windowed toilets were placed off limits by 15-year-old militiamen, and reporters could only occasionally go outside to breathe. When the Cambodians permitted us a visit to the main temple, the bus driver was so uneasy about the possibilities of an ambush that he tended to careen erratically among the temple clusters. One driver was so anxious to cross the Angkor Thorn moat leading to one of the temple complexes that he banged his bus against the bridge railing...
While Teng's supporters were being confirmed as Politburo members, the Communist Party Central Committee announced that the long and often bitter purge of the Gang of Four, Peking's disgraced radical faction, had "in the main been completed victoriously." From now on, said the announcement, the stress will no longer be on the criticism campaign but on rapid economic growth...
...main objection from farmers is that foreign buyers are paying excessively high prices. That in turn, say the opponents, pushes up the value of land owned and prevents young people from entering farming or expanding in the business...
...been burdened by prejudice against blacks as well as women. She spent decades in and out of undistinguished middle-level teaching and Government jobs before her talents were finally recognized and she was made a tenured professor at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. Wallace believes that the main difficulty facing young women entering the field of economics is to break into the mentor-protégé system, which has historically excluded females. Says she: "Without a mentor, you have a lot of trouble getting money to do research on your...