Word: point
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Look at it from another point of view. It is simply impossible to have rules of conduct whereby we cannot encroach on the Soviet sphere while the Soviets exercise an unlimited right to create turmoil in our sphere. If that's the situation, then over a period of time the defeat of free societies is foreordained...
...almost a writeoff. The railway works, but the port of Bares Salaam cannot cope with the tonnage of copper that Zambia would like to export by that route. The result is that to export its copper Zambia has been paying heavy transport and port costs to Tanzania. At one point, Zambia claimed that 70,000 tons of copper were waiting for shipment at Dar. Shipping delays and subsequent storage charges have seriously hurt Zambia's mining industry, which is already suffering from the effects of low copper prices. Unless it can get government-allocated foreign exchange...
...THESE EVENTS point up the dwindling U.S. influence in an area where it once enjoyed nearly complete control through complaisant leaders. But U.S. withdrawal from its traditional position supporting Somoza, even though dictated by the determination of Nicaraguan rebels, is a fundamental step in the right direction, a basic prerequisite to reestablishing the trust of a people whose skepticism of U.S. motives towards its country runs in the blood, and with good reason...
Carson Beach and Columbia Point sit on the edge, and no matter where you go you can see the Federal Reserve Bank on the horizon, so it's hard to convince anyone that Boston Harbor is a romantic place...
...tenants were also worried about the lack of a "Grandfather Clause" in the settlement, protecting people on a fixed income from rent increases above their means. This clause would especially aid the number of elderly who live in the buildings. If the tenants had won this point, a terrible precedent would have been set for Cambridge landlords, Ramseur said...