Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commend you for giving recognition to the equestrian Three-Day World Championships [Oct. 2] and to a sport that has been in the background for years but is growing in popularity. H?wever, I find it appalling that this phase of competition causes the death or near death of horses. It is time changes occurred to allow horses to remain healthy and still bring honor...
...with headquarters in Edinburgh, agreed with the fishermen that the seal herd must be thinned out. It called on the Norwegians, armed with 7.62 mm Mauser rifles and 4-ft. pickax bludgeons known as hakapiks, to dispatch 900 mother seals and 1,700 fluffy white pups in the first phase of the culling program. Local hunters have been licensed to kill 3,200 more pups...
...sequence that began a year and a half ago with an Israeli-Egyptian treaty. While he has the rapt attention of his audience, the President reveals that the SALT II agreement signed twelve months earlier has worked so well that the Soviet leadership wants to move on to Phase III, a sizable reduction in major weapons. The President says he will be leaving next month for his third summit with Leonid Brezhnev. All this hope, continues the President, coming on top of the announcement that very afternoon that U.S. inflation fell below 4%, calls for a small celebration. His guests...
Nobody was more relieved than Jimmy Carter and his chief diplomatic aides, for they were preparing to welcome Gromyko to Washington over the weekend for what might prove to be an important new phase of the Carter Administration's 18-month preoccupation with SALT II negotiations. Gromyko is by now a matchless expert in the technicalities of strategic arms, and there is no real replacement for him on the Soviet side. "If his illness had been any worse," said one vastly relieved U.S. diplomat, "we could have kissed SALT goodbye for another six months...
...have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly bring the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...