Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The sympathies of the U.S.. torn between big ally France and small friend Bourguiba (U.S. aid comprises 60% of the Tunisian government's budget), was as divided as its arms-which both sides are using against each other. Disregarding U.S. pleas that the dispute should be settled between...
Commodity prices are not the only problem, says the bank. Major world importers of the hemisphere's commodities -the U.S. (lead, zinc, petroleum) and Western Europe (sugar, beef) in particular-are lending a more sympathetic ear to the protectionist pleas of their own producers, establishing quotas or tightening tariff...
The chief merit claimed for the new rule is that it forces judges and jurors to recognize various kinds of neuroses and psychoses and then to decide whether the disease helped cause the crime. More lawbreakers may thus escape criminal punishment; in Washington, D.C., since the Durham Rule was introduced...
Once in jail, Adrienne's next move was to get herself and her family out again. She sent dozens of pleas to officials and obligingly wrote La Fayette's old mistresses about his troubles. Somehow she managed to get back to France herself to lead the fight for...
Strategy and Arms Control is "not an advertisement" but "a sympathetic exploration of arms control." It tries to show where arms control differs from lay connotations placed on oft-heard pleas for arms limitation or wholesale disarmament and "how naturally arms control fits" into military strategy.