Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made him, and by extension the Arabs, seem like the true seekers for peace in the Middle East. The Israelis would be viewed as the intransigents, squabbling over details and fearful of confronting Arabs at the negotiating table. All that would add to the world pressure on Israel to move on to Geneva, where, in the Israeli view, the cards and the participants could be stacked against them. No one was more aware of these hazards, of course, than Premier Begin...
Increasingly impatient with the slow progress of the U.S. initiative, Sadat began to think more and more about bold ways to break the stalemate. "The Arab-Israeli conflict," he told the U.S. Congressmen, "contains 70% psychological problems and 30% substance." What Sadat wanted was a move so dramatic that it would both shock and inspire the other parties involved to return to the path of negotiations. That could be only one thing, he eventually decided: speaking over the heads of the Israeli leaders to their people about peace, and doing so in front of their own parliament...
...million tons more than anyone had expected-and the bulk of it would be coming from the U.S. More embarrassing still, they turned out to have already made most of their purchases-skillfully skirting some provisions of a U.S.-Soviet trade agreement for buying grain-and chartered ships to move it at the lowest possible cost. By the time Brezhnev told all about the poor harvest, the Russians had secretly signed contracts for 18 to 20 million tons of grain from Australia, Canada and India-as well...
...investment banking house that represented Kennecott in the deal, put the case for the merger this way: "Once it becomes public that a company is fighting off a takeover bid, that company inevitably has to be sold. The sharks begin to circle, but then the white knights like us move in and rescue the company." Now some Kennecott shareholders are doubtless looking for a white knight...
...cabinet, generals, personal secretary, children, everybody except her artistically minded husband Morris (Gerald Hiken), seem to have been carted to the stage direct from Mme. Tussaud's. Unlike Mme. Tussaud's waxwork historical figures, these characters do have lines to say, but the play might move a little faster if they were mute...