Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they have seen a map, drawn in Moscow and secured by the Iranian intelligence service, showing a Greater Baluchistan that would connect the U.S.S.R. with the Arabian Sea. Similarly, an Islamabad diplomat refers darkly to the "Moscow-Kabul-Delhi axis." The Russians, he insists, "are now at the Khyber Pass." Certainly this is an exaggeration if not a delusion. It is also self-serving. The Pakistanis would like nothing better than to receive large-scale U.S. aid both to shore up the crumbling southern tier and to bolster their own security...
...allies in the Administration who calculate that the delays would knock a full percentage point off next year's inflation rate. But the delays would so anger-labor and old people that the Administration is not expected to ask for them. Most likely it will merely pass the word that it is not opposed to delays and hope that this signal will be enough to move Congress...
...keeps his distance from his material. Though built around a heartbreaking love triangle, Days of Heaven has no introspective dialogue and no Freudian fireworks. Accordingly, actors have been cast more on the basis of how they look than how they emote. Except for Gere, who is too manicured to pass for a migrant, the cast serves the movie well. In a more conventional film, perhaps, Gere might have caused severe damage; here he is just an irritant...
Jefferson might have found a way. In that same 1801 letter in which he answered critics about his absences from Washington, he noted that George Washington had set the example by taking August and September off. "Grumble who will," he said, "I will never pass those two months on tide-water...
...price boosts have gone primarily to the OPEC nationalizes of the oil. But the companies have done a creditable job of maintaining earnings through what amounts to an oil revolution, and for some the outlook is so bright as to make Pocock's optimism seem understated. Once they pass the point at which the rising returns from Alaska, the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico outweigh the enormous sums they are still spending to expand there, the Sisters will probably confront an unusual new problem for the 1980s: coping with a flood of profit so great that...