Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chip, Caron and their parents refused to explain the marital problems or say whether they will divorce. But friends described differences in their personalities and the effects on each of life in the White House as the main reasons for the breakup. Chip, they said, is "just a kid" whose head was turned. Gregarious and the most politically attuned of the Carter offspring, he thrived on the razzle-dazzle of campaigning, particularly the opportunities to meet show-business stars, drink a lot of beer and raise some hell during his off-hours. He even envisioned a political future...
...main sticking point, as always, was "linkage"-the relationship between the pending Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and the pursuit of a broader peace that will, among other things, provide autonomy for the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of the recent Arab summit conference in Baghdad, which condemned the Sadat peace initiative and the Camp David accords, the Egyptians are more determined than ever to prove to their Arab brethren that they are not selling out the cause by making a separate peace with the Israelis...
...pursuit of modernization, China is now willing to accept the aid of the capitalist West. Last week alone, the Chinese negotiated a series of deals with the Western world that would have been inconceivable under Mao. At the Canton Trade Fair, Peking's main foreign trade showcase, the Chinese sold approximately $1 billion in goods to foreign countries, while their purchases amounted to about $600 million. According to the National Council for U.S.-China Trade, American businessmen sold the Chinese some $83 million in commodities, mostly industrial chemicals, and bought $62 million worth of textiles and arts and crafts...
...maintain that the airlines will not be going "hog wild" in the service area. Yet there are already some welcome signs of movement in this direction. The quality of meals in coach may benefit from competitive pressure. Indeed, Air France has begun giving economy passengers a choice of two main courses plus fruit, cheese and wine, as well as free use of movie earphones...
...gloomily expected to die young, like Seurat or Beardsley. In fact he lived on to a great age, until 1944; but the main themes of his work were all set forth well before World War I, and it is on the period from 1880 to 1914 that the show concentrates. Few painters have had more difficult beginnings than Munch. They might have crushed his talent; instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally...