Word: mightly
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Washington, meanwhile, played a key role in some behind-the-scenes negotiations aimed at getting the financial guarantees that might help resolve the crisis. Although it has avoided any direct role in the negotiations, the Carter Administration is considering a multinational "Southern Africa Aid Package," which would provide between $1 billion and $2 billion to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and the neighboring states that have suffered from the war. State Department officials insist that this is a broad-based "agricultural and development fund" and not a "buy-out-the-whites scheme." Still, the initiative provided assurance that substantial U.S. aid would...
...Salisbury's principal backer, South Africa, be counted on to support a weakening of its ally's military might...
...pocketbooks, as they are expected to, inventories of unsold goods will rise and business will fall off sharply. Even Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who had previously been happy-talking the economy by predicting that the recession was already half over, last week admitted that the coming downturn might be deeper than he had thought and warned that "strains and dislocation are still ahead...
Released just days before, The Long Run, an adept and insinuating work by the regents of California pop, had already crossed the ocean, penetrated cultural barriers where some resistance might have been anticipated, and found a snug home for itself. Besides being a reminder of the international power of American pop music, hearing The Long Run in Blandford helped to take the Eagles out of cultural context. It lifted them from the category of stainless-steel Los Angeles pop, in which they are usually confined on their home turf, and let their music stand free of preconceptions. It sounded good...
Large segments of the public also seem to be changing their attitude toward science. During the turbulent 1960s, the stress on "relevant" studies convinced many students that helping others now was more important than grueling research that might benefit mankind later, a decision no doubt reinforced by the fact that the social sciences are frequently not so intellectually taxing as scientific research. A similar attitude has led to attacks on such training grounds for young scientists as Glashow and Weinberg's alma mater, the Bronx High School of Science, which has been called "elitist" for insisting on tough admissions...