Word: move
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...exploration rising, producers have hiked prices for most consumers from 36? per 1,000 cu. ft. in 1972 to more than six times that amount today. For an average family, that means a bill running anywhere from $40 to $70 higher per month. Many people have had to move to smaller houses, others double up with relatives. Farmers have curtailed planting-gas is needed for irrigation pumps...
...goal of the Administration in last week's series of negotiations was to move speedily and toughly, if necessary, to end a stalemate. Carter's view of the Middle East after nine months in office is that the area is in an explosive, "unsafe situation" of no war, no peace that endangers the domestic political situation of Arab moderates like Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and heightens the possibility of another oil embargo. Settlement is imperative now, as Carter told the U.N. last week, because "of all the regional conflicts in the world, none holds more menace...
There was some surprise at the Administration's move to bring the Russians back into the Middle East diplomacy so soon; after all, the Nixon-Kissinger policy had been to curb sharply Soviet influence in the region. But Kissinger himself has noted that Moscow would have to be brought back into the arena eventually. Says a State Department official: "The Soviets are not an ornament in the Middle East. We simply cannot reconvene Geneva without one of the co-chairmen." If Geneva collapses or is never reconvened at all, critics of the Administration will undoubtedly argue that the Russians will...
Given the deep-seated hostility on all sides, the Administration has done surprisingly well so far at narrowing the initial differences between Israelis and Arabs so that they are seriously considering sitting down together at Geneva. The result of the Administration's decision to move from push to shove in the Middle East could easily have been different: a violent shouting match with the parties involved that would dash the prospects for negotiations and saddle the Administration with a highly visible foreign policy failure that it can ill afford...
Bossert said that he tended to discourage sophomores because Lowell already has 169 sophomores and only 93 juniors. "But I told them they might have a better chance in the spring. Every so often we have people who want to move up the Quad...