Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Social problems require an interdisciplinary focus," Horner said. "The exciting thing about the Institute is that it is a natural place to pull together all interdisciplinary experts. It is a neutral ground where they can come together to tackle their mutual interests...
This week the toes that bind the Continent belong to the aggressive voetbailers of Amsterdam's Ajax club and to the graceful giocatori di calcio of Turin's Juventus team. When they meet on traditionally neutral territory in Belgrade's Crvena Zvezda (red star) stadium, it will be a classic confrontation of styles. Ajax, shooting for a third successive cup victory, epitomizes a relentless, free-flowing new style of "total football." Attackers defend and defenders attack interchangeably. Juventus, winner of 15 national titles and known as the "grand old lady" of Italian soccer, represents the conservative, traditional...
...businessman who is at the top of his company has to be able to figure out what's going on," says Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, a Republican who now considers himself "neutral." In corporations as in Government, several officials note, executive assistants sometimes give orders in the chief's name without his knowledge -but if an assistant gets his superior in trouble by taking the boss's name in vain, he is booted out immediately, with no expressions of regret. Says a New York textile maker, who once discovered that an overzealous assistant was tapping...
...there is another word, insurgent, which you use to describe the opponents of Lon Nol in Cambodia, who was himself surely an "insurgent," with American aid, against the neutral Prince Sihanouk. Perhaps it is time that Lon Nol was "toppled...
With the streets eerily deserted except for government troops, Lebanese Premier Amin Hafez, accompanied by three Cabinet ministers and ten bodyguards, met with Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who had 50 armed guerrillas with him. During the night, on neutral ground at the Makassed Hospital, they worked out a cease-fire agreement under which the army hostages were released. Before dawn, however, heavy firing broke out anew at a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, across St. George's Bay. Soon sporadic shooting resumed in other areas and spread well beyond Beirut...