Word: paper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is little possibility that a summit can achieve much beyond the formal signing of SALT II. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "Brezhnev could attend a couple of dinners and read a paper or two, but he is in no shape to engage in real give-and-take with Carter. It will be a pro forma summit, and it would be useless to expect anything more." Though signing a SALT agreement would be very important, Carter is disappointed at the lack of prospects for going further. Said a top White House adviser: "The President really wanted...
...Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike as modern women politicians who have made it to the top. In keeping with British tradition, Thatcher will be addressed simply as "Prime Minister." Even before she paid her first visit to Downing Street, her campaign aides had arrived, their arms loaded with paper work. The government of a determined woman whose work ethic had been forged in the heartland of England was taking shape with no delay...
...social uses to which it is put. What is often kept from the citizen, in the form of knowledge, is social and political power. When demonstrations and controversies break out over seemingly esoteric technical questions, the underlying question, as Cornell University's Dorothy Nelkin puts it in a paper on "Science as a Source of Political Conflict," is always the same: "Who should control crucial policy choices?" Such choices, she adds, tend to stay in the hands of those who control "the context of facts and values in which policies are shaped...
After he was helped off the ice as fans showered paper cups and programs in celebration, Jonathan returned and struck again at 15:24, this time taking a set-up from Cashman and rapping it past Dryden...
...anecdotes, Bok related how, as dean of the Law School, he was spirited off at 2 a.m. to meet with three student radicals--all wearing sunglasses and berets--in a dimly-lit room. Bok said they slid him a piece of paper--which would sign the recruiting powers--and ordered him, "Sign here...