Word: northern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Northern offer had been worked out at the London summit in May and was partly an outcome of Jimmy Carter's promise to "reduce the chasm between the world's rich and poor." An important ingredient had been an increased willingness to help on the part of West Germany. The offer included a $1 billion special fund to help the poorest nations meet their bills for oil, other imports and interest, as well as an agreement to set up a common fund that would stabilize prices of certain commodities-a proposal intended to protect the Third World from...
...right on, Seabrook! If a power company tried to put a nuclear plant on the northern New Jersey coast I would do the same thing...
They are the last American ground forces on the Asian mainland. Manning guard posts along the Uijongbu Corridor, 14,000 G.I.s of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division stand astride the traditional invasion route from northern Korea to Seoul. For nearly 25 years, the presence of the 2nd Division along the Demilitarized Zone has been visible proof of America's commitment to defend the Seoul government against renewed aggression from the north. But the division's days in South Korea are numbered; President Carter has decided to withdraw the 2nd, along with its 17,700 support troops...
Some artists have long, honorable careers but are continually ignored. They are swamped by their colleagues' bow waves. Giorgio Cavallon's career has been of this submerged kind. He is now 73, having been born near Vicenza in northern Italy in 1904, and he was one of the first abstract painters in New York in the 1930s, when painting abstract seemed automatically to consign an artist to ridicule and obscurity. In the '60s some of Cavallon's contemporaries, such as Milton Resnick or Lee Krasner, long written down as minor or fringe figures in the aesthetic...
LL.D., Peace People leaders, Northern...