Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their tracks. Radio Peking announced that "on its own initiative" China was declaring a ceasefire. Chinese troops pulled back from the front, in some cases by as much as 60 miles. It was all being done, the Chinese boasted, so that a speedy "peaceful settlement of the boundary question" that had touched off the month-long conflict could be worked...
...Britain approached a long-awaited referendum on "devolution," the Labor government's plan to transfer authority in health, education, housing and other matters from the Parliament in Westminster to regional assemblies to be established in Edinburgh and Cardiff. What prompted Labor's initiative was not a question of soul but of cold politics. Though the Nationalists had been campaigning for greater independence for years, they never won much attention until 1974, when the Scottish party won in Scotland a surprising 30% of the vote in general elections and took over eleven seats in Parliament. By then Plaid Cymru...
...overriding question is what Washington will do about the price squeeze. Though he proclaimed the energy crisis the "moral equivalent of war," President Carter has behaved as if it were the acronym MEOW. Now his generals are quarreling publicly over strategy. Observes John Sawhill, who was the federal energy chief under Richard Nixon: "The U.S. could not have been less prepared for this shortage. What bothers me is to see members of Carter's own Cabinet go on TV and make veiled threats about military action in the Middle East even though we refuse to take the simple action...
...question is how long Silverman has to make good. One of his old bosses, Bill Paley, thinks the test will come next fall; up to now he has not had time, so the argument goes, to show his stuff. Many others doubt that he can do much until the summer of 1980, when the network will automatically command the air waves with the Moscow Olympics. Silverman himself seems to lean toward that timetable. "If I had a crystal ball and predicted what television will look like by the end of 1980," he says, "my judgment would be that...
...since the turn of the century have so many Western businessmen been so determined to cash in on China's vast promise. The question both for outsiders and for the Chinese is whether the world's most populous nation can really modernize .its poor and backward agrarian economy in a mere 20 years. That is China's ambitious goal, but economic realities have already forced Peking to reconsider some of its grand plans...