Word: move
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...make in the framework for a start treaty that was all but agreed to by Gorbachev's and Ronald Reagan's negotiators. But the Administration's central theme is reasonably clear. In essence, George Bush proposes to stand pat and wait for Gorbachev to make the next move -- and probably the one after that and the one after that -- toward reducing tensions. As one senior American official puts it, the idea is to "let Gorbachev keep coming to us, making concessions, playing to our agenda...
...supports, to approve a federally subsidized sale of $250 million worth of American wheat to the Soviet Union. But according to farm-state Congressmen, he made the $12 million subsidy available on only half the wheat the Soviets wanted to buy. The White House denies that, but such a move would be a typical Bush half-a- loaf compromise between the views of the Agriculture Department, which wants to assist U.S. farmers in competing against European export subsidies, and the NSC, which contends that the U.S. should not help Gorbachev solve his economic problems lest he be spared the choice...
...Philip Grant gamely leads Laborday Fatali and a group of other flamboyantly named students through a discussion of Rousseau and Romanticism, only occasionally thrown off by a modern sensibility ("What does self-serving mean?" "Well, the gas station is self- service"). Yet Grant, one of those gypsy scholars who move from country to country, finds Samoa considerably more alien than his last posting, in Beirut. "In Lebanon," he says, "there was at least some bridge with the West. But here you feel totally cut off. The culture is 3,000 years old and very complex and so different from ours...
Egypt has nowhere near enough money to pay for such an ambitious restoration program by itself. But it could generate significantly more revenues with one simple move: raising the laughably low entrance fees charged tourists. Tombs, for example, are often free, and visitors to the pyramids are charged only about $1.25. There are plans to double that fee, but it could be doubled again and still remain a bargain...
Documentary film is vivid, emotional and personal. "Days of Rage" is no doubt going to move people; films have that tendency. But to claim that any controversial piece of expressive work is propaganda and, therefore, censorable is simply wrong...