Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specifics of that report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework for wider global accommodation." This, along with European defense concerns, will presumably be one of the main topics when Carter meets late this week with his chief European allies-British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe...
...progress, old biases die hard. Says Carolyn Shaw Bell, a Wellesley College economics professor and a prime mover in the drive to place more women in important economic positions: "There is a clear indication of change at some levels, but the advancement of women has to be pushed if it is to continue...
...have high hopes of dying in my prime," Joe Orton confided to his diary in July 1967. Less than a month later Orton, who was only 34, was granted his wish. In a scene that could have occured in one of Orton's dark farces, the playwright's male lover smashed his head open with a hammer, then committed suicide with a lethal draft of grapefruit juice and Nembutals...
JERUSALEM--Israel and Egypt are waiting for Washington to bring them together again to negotiate issues blocking a peace treaty, Israeli Prime Minster Menachem Begin said yesterday...
SAINT FRANCOIS, Guadeloupe--The crisis in Iran was the main topic of discussion as President Carter, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt gathered yesterday on the Caribbean island for a two-day summit conference...