Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the two agreed on all particulars. Carter has suggested that in a Middle East settlement Israel might be permitted to maintain some kind of defense lines beyond its actual borders. Nothing doing, said Sadat. "Sovereignty is indivisible. We can't have two borders." Sadat did soften his position.on Israel, however, saying that he envisaged full normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab states within about five years of the signing of a peace agreement. Previously, he had said only that Israel's security would be guaranteed, not that normal diplomatic relations would be established. Sadat pressed...
...when he presents this vision as a return to the happier days of public man, then it is time to call the emperor naked. Rather than demanding that individual wills be subordinated to the greater good in the old res publica, Sennett claims in his new vision to maintain the distance between public and private. But his argument that we must return to a kind of open market where "rules" and "conventions" are the only things governing the free play of individual whims is not new at all; it is simply a return to American pluralism. Sennett's final public...
...would seem to be an excellent target for Frank's brutally candid quips, but the representative has remained sympathetic to his former benefactor. Frank voted against White's charter reform package, an issue crucial to the mayor (and if you believed White, to the city too), but they still maintain their mutually beneficial relationship...
Unmollified, Sparks says he will fight back. A father of two, he says that "any parent knows it costs more for an operator to maintain an apartment if there are two kids...
...fear out of society." Two months earlier he had been a prisoner without trial under the repressive state of emergency; last week, as he became the fourth Prime Minister of India, he promised to restore civil liberties, adhere to the principles of local development idealized by Mahatma Gandhi and maintain a scrupulously nonaligned foreign policy. A lifelong politician in the Gandhian mold, Desai is as eccentric as he is ascetic, and he leads a fractious coalition party that could fall apart under the slightest stress Nonetheless, whatever troubles ahead for India, his party's startling tory was a momentous...