Word: nic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ultimately, the argument that is most likely to force the Arab govern ments to reconsider their policy of eth nic economic discrimination is that they run the risk of a backlash against the boycott when they begin to invest their oil billions in Western countries in a big way. As President Ford put it bluntly last week: "Foreign businessmen and in vestors are welcome in the United States when they are willing to conform to the principles of our society...
...John Mazzarella of New York City was among a group of tourists forced to remain inside the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia as hos tages of the Greeks against Turkish snip ers outside. He told of the "Hollywood scene with planes flying in formation and paratroopers dropping all over Nic osia. Our waiters disappeared and came back wearing khaki uniforms. But at least we never had to pay our bills...
...short-order restaurants, the frank still emits a sharp democratic zonk, redolent of exotic spices and domestic meats. To most Americans, the hot dog is the equivalent of Proust's madeleine; it triggers memories of afternoons in the bleachers, and languorous Sundays spent lolling on pic nic grounds. At 170 calories, it is modest enough to be included in a dietary lunch; yet the gourmet James Beard has wrapped a recipe around it: choucroute àl'sacienne. (Translation: sauerkraut with local sausage. Beard prefers franks...
...original proposal--initiated by the West Coast founders--was for a fairly centralized National Interim Committee (NIC) that would aid in organizing new chapters and publicize NAM by publishing a national newspaper. In addition, the founders proposed that the conference select three program priorities which all chapters would work on in addition to local projects...
...conference limited the power of the NIC--which will serve until NAM's official 'coming out' at a founding convention in June--by specifying that regions will form their own conferences instead of allowing the NIC to organize regional conferences and by providing that the newspaper be published in a different city from the NIC headquarters. The conference also required that at least 7 of the 13 NIC members be women--in response to charges by people of both sexes--that NAM was dominated...