Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primarily to determine what can be done to restore momentum to Middle East peacemaking, which has sagged noticeably since Kissinger's earlier efforts. The estimate until recently was that the two sides might be able to meet in Geneva before year's end to conclude a peace pact. But nothing substantive has happened since May, when Syria and Israel agreed to disengagement on the Golan Heights. The revised estimate, as a result, is that it will be at least six months before any of the parties reach Geneva...
...series of marathon negotiations and shifting wage offers on both sides. At Commencement time, the University was offering a two-year contract to the printers, with pay hikes of 5.9 per cent in the first year and slightly more in the second, while the printers wanted a one-year pact with 10-to-14-per-cent raises...
...merger merger agreement can probably be best summed up by the redefinition of the Radcliffe administration. The pact specified that a dean of Radcliffe be appointed by the governing boards of Harvard and Radcliffe, and that the dean have administrative jurisdiction over the Schlesinger Library, the Radcliffe Institute, the Alumnae Office and the Office of Admissions and Financial...
...founded by conscience-stricken scientists who had helped create the atomic bomb, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has recorded the imminence of a nuclear holocaust with a "doomsday clock" on its cover. Two years ago, after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. signed their first nuclear arms limitation pact, the Bulletin's editors set back the clock to twelve minutes to midnight-the farthest it has ever been from that apocalyptic hour. Now the editors are no longer so optimistic. In the September issue, the clock's hands will be pushed forward to nine minutes before midnight. The editors...
...merger merger" pact--as the 1971 agreement came to be known--runs out at the end of this year, when a new agreement must be negotiated. In many ways, Harvard and Radcliffe seem as close to merger as they will ever be. On the other hand, Matina Horner, Radcliffe's current president, has been an enthusiastic proponent of the non-merger merger concept, and Bok has often been influenced by the conservative views of Harvard alumni...