Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders to be visibly engaged in a tough defense of the American interest. He demonstrated immediately that the notorious Nixon "Palace Guard," which forced Cabinet members to deal with the President through White House assistants, could not survive the challenge of a determined Cabinet member. He simply ran over them on international economic policy. If he needed White House guidance, he simply crossed the street from the Treasury and went to the Oval Office. He saw no reason to treat foreigners with any greater tenderness. He believed that in the final analysis countries yield only to pressure...
First, Patriotic Front Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo surprised the conference by agreeing to give the tiny Rhodesian white minority (3% of the population) an outsize 20% of the seats in a future parliament. The move clearly ran against their longstanding contention that such a guarantee would be inherently "racist." Their grudging acceptance of it now brought them into line with the Salisbury delegation of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, which had adopted the 20% formula a week earlier. Then, with equally surprising magnanimity, the bishop's multiracial coalition government reversed an earlier stand and announced its acceptance...
...Paris-based International Herald Tribune and a former A.P. correspondent. U.P.I. reporters have grown accustomed to being slightly overworked and less well paid than their counterparts at A.P. Remembers Dave Oestreicher, 49, national editor of the New York Daily News and a 15-year U.P.I. veteran: "The company ran a tightwad operation and was proud of it." For example, in the 1950s at least one U.P.I. bureau supplied its reporters with three-minute egg timers for longdistance calls. By the time the sand in the tiny hourglass ran out, says Oestreicher, "if you hadn't got the story...
...basis of that chocolate cake, he says, "I ran up the red flag...
...state of Massachusetts was ready for any crowd. More than 1000 policemen, with 7000 more security forces in the downtown area guarded a common cordoned off with hundreds of blue barrels and bedecked with banners. Subways ran at rush hour frequency for much of the day, and several thoroughfares were closed...