Word: parley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington parley will be the first discussion between the two sides since the American Council of Education (ACE) endorsed a plan to create a board of college presidents which would have unprecedented policy making and veto powers within the NCAA. Two weeks ago, top NCAA officials criticized the plan for giving the presidents too much power...
...parties doing the negotiating. The reality is that the negotiations between Harvard Food Service Workers. Local 26, and Harvard University, affects a long list of people, including Harvard students, faculty, the Cambridge community. Food Service Workers, other unions and other institutions. Open negotiations are the only form of parley which provides the opportunity for the interests of all these groups to be addressed...
...years after the private parley of scientists, the Midland area is still wrestling with dioxin. It continues to show up in tainted water from Dow's Midland plant, has been found in fish in ten Michigan rivers and is the source of considerable anxiety among local residents. Says Diane Herbert, a young mother of two children: "Almost everyone seems to have thyroid problems, and there are a lot of skin tumors and allergies in pets." To assess those fears, Michigan's state health department is seeking state or federal money for a major study of dioxin...
...leaky pipes in Kansas City and St. Louis." But other Midwest Governors, especially those of the Great Lakes states, remain uneasy. They fear increased pressure for their water, not only from other parts of the country but perhaps from Washington, exercising its powers to regulate interstate commerce. At a parley on Mackinac Island, Mich., last month, representatives from the Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec) listened to some telling statistics from University of Michigan Civil Engineering Professor Jonathan Bulkeley. He pointed out that even a relatively small diversion from the Great Lakes...
...beginning of the Administration, Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger wanted to put bilateral disarmament efforts indefinitely on hold, while they tried to remedy what they saw as inequality in the strategic balance and the vulnerability of American forces-that is, arm in order to parley. Largely because of the freeze movement and public fears of nuclear war, the Administration began to look for ways that, in its view, would restore equality by means of arms control. In other words, arm and parley at the same time-a fairly traditional concept, one that has kept both SALT and the arms...