Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imposition of a coalition government through negotiation against the wishes of Saigon. There is speculation that Nixon may announce his plan-perhaps linking it with new troop withdrawals-in an address to the nation this month. It would be logical for him to time the announcement for maximum effect on the congressional elections. But White House aides insist that if Hanoi expects changes in basic Administration policy for domestic reasons, it is mistaken. Whatever the Hanoi regime expects, a spokesman for its delegation in Paris described reports of a new American proposal as "only for political purposes." Moreover, Saigon sees...
...Yanks. Like the U.S., Moscow is finding global politics brings many problems. The Japanese, annoyed by the blustering manners of Soviet trade officials, often refer to them as the "Red Yanks." Developing countries like Somalia and Tanzania have shown skill at playing Moscow against Washington or Peking to maximum advantage. Moreover, most countries still regard the Russians with deep suspicion. Much as Libya's military government has welcomed Soviet arms aid, it has refused to allow Soviet warships to call at Tobruk for repairs and resupply. Egypt still bans the Communist Party, for all its reliance on Moscow...
...apprentices' advancement is overseen by a labor-management committee established this year. The maximum time spent in apprenticeship is four years (three for painters and roofers), with apprentices normally advancing one grade every six months...
...socioeconomic environment. Most liberals mistook this indignation at various times for law-and-order, fascism, racism, and even war-weariness. A year later the public irascibility became mixed up with ecology. Americans simply wanted a government that could govern, one which could execute clearly conceived programs with a maximum of legal decorum. The same national mania which put the Republicans in power could have, with equal despair, made Robert Kennedy President...
...corruption, vice and violence, few cities could match 19th century San Francisco. Opium dens, brothels, gambling parlors, Shanghai saloons and gangs flourished by dint of maximum bribes to police and minimum legal scrutiny. Civic morality occasionally counterattacked the Barbary Coast and its adjunct, Chinatown; in 1875 authorities formed an elite corps of policemen to check Chinatown's bloody tong wars...