Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday, the Administration was strongly urging the Israelis to move out of south Lebanon. "We expect Israel to withdraw," the State Department declared flatly. "The Americans are now saying 'Get out, get out,' " complained an Israeli official, "but if we do that without some arrangement, the south will soon be back to where it was before this week." To meet these objections, the U.N., supporting the U.S. plan, appeared ready to vote to send a force to police southern Lebanon so that the Israelis would have no excuse for remaining. It was reported that this force would number...
...Signal and Pittsburgh Forgings. As energy prices rise, the scramble for wells intensifies. One real estate developer, Town Development, Inc., has applied to put down wells on the city limits of Pittsburgh to supply fuel to a motel and office-building complex..The Pittsburgh fire department is opposing the move until it gets assurances that adequate safety precautions will be taken...
...decisions may go the wrong way. The Administration, for example, may restrict imports of Citizens Band radios, which will push up prices. Postal workers are expected to demand a substantial pay increase when their contract expires in July; the Government may yield. Carter has refused to support a congressional move to roll back huge increases in Social Security taxes scheduled to start next year. And the President so far has tended to view regulatory decisions in an isolated, case-by-case way, rather than weighing their inflationary impact. Further, he seems to have no stomach for Lyndon Johnson-style jawboning...
...proposal expectably made the State Department nervous, but Carter saw no need to move immediately. He did warn that the U.S. would retaliate in some manner if the British did not agree to new low fares by March 17. Nothing was ever said publicly about possible U.S. restrictions on flights by the state-owned British Airways, a far more important carrier than Caledonian, but the threat was certainly there. As one British embassy spokesman put it: "Carter hung a St. Patrick's Day sword of Damocles over our heads...
...Navy, which thought it was close to a settlement with General Dynamics, the move came as a shock. The Navy immediately threatened legal action. Most likely, it will seek a court injunction ordering General Dynamics to continue building the submarines. The Los Angeles class (SSN 688) nuclear subs are sleek 360-ft. vessels designed to attack surface ships and other submarines, and are the U.S.'s answer to a relatively new class of Soviet subs. Only two of the submarines involved in the General Dynamics contract have been delivered; the remaining 16 are in various stages of construction...