Word: protractedness
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Some analysts warn that the decline of the middle-roading Free Democrats could produce a growing polarization within the country. Others question whether the German penchant for dynamic leadership, after 13 years of Brandt and Schmidt, can be satisfied by the unassertive Kohl. At a time when a protracted global...
Perry, 38, charges that Richard C. Atkinson, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego, impregnated her in 1977 during a protracted affair talked her into having an abortion and then reneged on his promise to impregnate her again. Atkinson denies the charges, but Perry seems serious until she...
At the same time, the Israelis were increasingly aware that military action could prove even more damaging to their position than a protracted wait. Begin and his aides are taking into account three main reasons for avoiding an armed assault on West Beirut: fear of heavy casualties among Israeli troops...
Karpov and his colleagues went to Geneva last week with instructions to reject in the strongest terms the propositions on which the President's START proposal is based. But the Reaganauts are not likely to abandon their proposal so quickly as the Carterites did in 1977 when their own...
In spite of all this, these two eruptions have a good deal in common. Their timing alone connects them. In a letter to President Reagan the day Israel invaded Lebanon, Prime Minister Begin cited the example of Britain's act of self-defense, thus justifying his own nation's move...