Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third in a sequence that began a year and a half ago with an Israeli-Egyptian treaty. While he has the rapt attention of his audience, the President reveals that the SALT II agreement signed twelve months earlier has worked so well that the Soviet leadership wants to move on to Phase III, a sizable reduction in major weapons. The President says he will be leaving next month for his third summit with Leonid Brezhnev. All this hope, continues the President, coming on top of the announcement that very afternoon that U.S. inflation fell below 4%, calls for a small...
...political emotions are fading. Says Alex Robles, a prosperous home-builder who fled Cuba in 1960: "To move back would be just as big a dislocation as coming here. I wouldn't go through the pain." As Mario Vizcaino, director of the city's Cuban National Planning Council, puts it: "Ten years ago, to become an American citizen was almost an act of betrayal. Now there is a growing awareness of voting power, that the voting booth is the place to get things done." Coupled with that attitude is a developing feeling that perhaps the U.S. is, after...
...stands. (Largest among that dangerous dozen is Maine's proposed $559 million Dickey Lincoln Dam, which environmentalists contend threatens the Furbish lousewort, a weed protected under the law.) In addition, the Interior Department may add 1,000 plants and 100 animals to its endangered species list, a move that could eventually hold up even more construction. Environmentally concerned legislators in the House last week were scrambling to gain support for a compromise funding bill already passed by the Senate. The measure would create a seven-member committee, composed mostly of federal officials, to rule on possible exceptions...
...John Paul's election proves, prediction is hazardous. During the week, the Cardinals took up a small physical matter that may be significant, a proposal to move the conclave from the uncomfortable Apostolic Palace to more commodious quarters, such as the huge Propaganda Fide College, where missionary priests are trained. Some Cardinals found the palace constricting last time because of discomfort, isolation and the heat. Opponents of the shift pointed out that the stifling August weather is now gone and all the materials are at hand to prepare the familiar quarters. Besides, remarked St. Louis' John Carberry, "some...
...what does that mean--some of the the guys wear PANTIES on the field or something?' And then everybody starts laughing, and I guess I was laughing too--yeah, I was laughing--except they were sort of laughing AT me, you know, not WITH me? Boy, what a bonehead move that was--you see, the whole time, it was the multi-FLEX offense...