Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's frustrations can only increase in the days to come. This week Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in New York City and Washington to try and narrow their differences in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, a prospective agreement that faces formidable opposition in the Senate. Next month Carter will begin an uphill fight in Congress to lift the arms embargo against NATO ally Turkey, which was imposed in 1974 following Turkey's invasion of Cyprus. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 8 to 4 to retain the embargo, but Administration...
...knows whether the Supreme Court will decide the Bakke case on narrow grounds or by stating broad principles concerning programs to aid minorities. As a result no one knows the extent to which the Bakke decision will affect thousands of affirmative-action programs in business, education and government. "Everybody is holding their breath. Courts and defendants are trying to do as little as possible until they see what the Bakke decision will say," says one lawyer. Notes Joseph Rauh, a leading civil rights attorney in Washington: "I don't blame the courts. They don't want to rule...
...political puppet. The end came when they executed Moro with eleven shots fired from a Czech-made Skorpion 7.65-mm pistol and a still unidentified 9.-cal. handgun. Eight shots were centered around his heart. The hatchback Renault in which the body had been placed was left on a narrow, one-block street, Via Michelangelo Caetani, almost equidistant from the nearby headquarters of the Christian Democrats and the Communists. The location was a contemptuous taunt at both of the parties that Moro, more than anyone else, had worked to bring closer together in a political accommodation aimed at keeping Italy...
...meantime, he presses ahead on what is surely the toughest chore of his career: using the Federal Reserve to slow the economy gradually without dipping it into recession. As Oklahoma-born Miller, who is part Indian, puts it, "We want to go through this narrow pass to the wide open space on the other side without an arrow touching...
Levinson has consciously tried to avoid the pitfalls of so many other studies of men in their worlds: a too-narrow focus of research. Psychologists tend to study the ego's changing role and function (Erikson) or a man's changing defense mechanisms to deal with the world (Harvard's George E. Vaillant); sociologists focus on men's work or class or world-view; anthropologists on the nature of his ties to his family, community, religion, or nation. Levinson, however, is anxious to put his new discipline on a more secure, if ambitious, footing; he wants to study what...