Word: normale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, seated at his gleaming wooden desk in the Oval Office, looked gravely into the TV cameras and in a calm, steady voice revealed that the U.S. and Communist China had secretly and suddenly decided to end nearly 30 years of bellicose estrangement. The two countries would establish normal diplomatic relations...
...quietly asking several other oil-producing countries whether they would be able to increase their petroleum output in case Iran's production dwindled even further than it had already. At week's end a strike by oil workers had cut the country's normal daily production of 6 million bbl. to about half that total. Then, at the suggestion of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President invited George Ball, an Under Secretary of State in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, to join the National Security Council temporarily as a special consultant. His job: to prepare...
Still the questions linger. Why does there appear to have been so little thought given even to contingency planning? One well-informed U.S. Government source says that as far as he knows there has been no paper that went through normal Government clearance procedures addressing the question of what to do if the Shah should fall. How can this...
Second, Killeen continues, give companies plenty of incentive to expand and export. Those settling in Ireland get government cash grants for building, training, research. Export profits are taxfree. Taxes on domestic profits are reduced from the normal 54% to 25% for companies that expand and create jobs. Says Killeen in his light brogue: "Corporate taxes in Ireland have been insignificant because, until recently, we didn't have much...
Likewise, it would appear clear that the Faculty should grant normal academic credit for work done at universities abroad, which would represent a departure from current policy. A fifth question, which considers whether or not the University should resurrect the now-moribund writing center, presents some difficulty. The Writing Center represented an attempt to deal with a very real problem, but it was prohibitively expensive. While the University should certainly investigate alternative responses to the problem, the Writing Center is not the answer...