Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Style aside, Begin's unchanged position that Israel must maintain some form of control over the West Bank is unacceptable to the Arabs. By offering what amounts to an American outline for peace in the Middle East, Carter has avoided so far the ominous possibility of another war, but he has also raised expectations, particularly on the Arab side, dangerously high. Meeting in Athens to compare notes on neutral ground, TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn agreed that Washington's strategy carries great risks in case of failure...
...waging war against Renault, the French automobile firm. At issue: a giant sculpture park Dubuffet designed for the company's headquarters outside Paris. Nine months after construction began in January 1975, Renault decided that the Salon d'Ete would be too expensive to complete and to maintain, and called a halt. Dubuffet, who says the ensemble of sculpture is "the sum of twelve years of work," promptly sued "to defend the right of the artist over his creation"-and lost. Undaunted, he has appealed the case, supported by a group of painters, musicians and writers, including Joan...
...been intensified by the rise of the computer, the relentless superbrain that stores mind-boggling masses of in formation. Federal agencies have 3.8 billion personal records in 6,753 categories from passport applications to Social Security accounts- an average of 18 files for every citizen. State and local agencies maintain at least as many records, while private organizations store three times the federal total. The nation's largest credit bureau, TRW Credit Data of Anaheim, Calif, keeps records on 55 million people. The biggest private investigator, Atlanta-based Equifax, Inc has files on some 60 million people and annually...
...convinced that he gained no personal profit from the alleged fraud. But as a top London banker points out, the scandal "could have happened in any other country. Slack management is not just a Swiss problem." What makes the case special is that no other country seeks to maintain such a mystique about its "inviolable" banking system. The scandal spotlighted the extent to which Swiss banks are trusted to police themselves. The chief external watchdog, the Bern-based Federal Banking Commission, has only twelve employees assigned to keep tabs on the industry...
...which cut him off above the pelvis), but the kids loved him. Folk-and rock-bred parents of the 1970s may not love the Dead Boys, but a lot of the kids do. The biggest catastrophe for punk rock would of course be huge success. How does a rebel maintain his pose while earning $ 1 million a year...