Word: midweekly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon planning to fly directly to Peking after meeting Japan's Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage (see cover story, page 34)1 Nixon announced that he intended "no change" in his travel plans, and pointedly scheduled a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko for midweek...
...Europe and Japan on the other too deep, for anyone to have expected a full resolution to come out of last week's series of meetings among international moneymen. There had been hope, though, that at least some hard bargaining could start. Instead, the key meeting, a midweek gathering in London of finance chiefs of the world's ten richest industrialized nations, deteriorated into a testy confrontation that left the officials unable even to agree on what they will talk about when they convene again in Washington on Saturday. The impasse deepened the danger that President Nixon...
Dangerous Game. Not until midweek did the bargainers get down to prime issues. Abel presented his demands. One steel executive described them as "somewhere between Venus and Mars." The next day, Larry finally made management's first firm offer. It was promptly rejected. In his debut as management's chief negotiator, Larry irritated union men by his unyielding stand. "Brinkmanship can be a dangerous game," warned union Vice President Joseph Molony...
...midweek, mission controllers at the Kazakhstan cosmodrome succeeded in raising the craft's orbit to 166 miles by 161 miles, apparently by firing Salyut's on-board rockets. Still, Veteran Space Watcher Heinz Kaminski of West Germany's Bochum Observatory calculated that the boost would keep Salyut alive only for another seven weeks at the most -enough time for more docking attempts but too short a life-span for setting up a working space station...
...these men that the veterans have taken their cause. They came to Washington to seek Congressmen of their own districts. Most come from poor urban areas of the East or rural districts in the Midweek and South...