Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days later, the President invited both delegations to lunch. Dayan told Carter-within full earshot of the press -that the negotiators might not be able to reach an agreement without the presence of their heads of state.-At week's end, both delegations were prepared to head home for consultations about the apparent obstacles...
...running at a rate of 8.6% annually; unemployment, at 8.5%, is at the highest level since 1940; and the value of the Canadian dollar has plummeted from $1.03 U.S. to a spindly 840 in the past 23 months. The federal government is running a deficit that is expected to reach at least $11.8 billion this year, and Canadians, like many Americans, are worried about a bloated, overpaid federal bureaucracy...
...merchandising razzle-dazzle, the chains are inducing people to buy more books than ever. Retail sales rose to $1.6 billion last year for hard and soft covers combined, and this year they are expected to climb 13%, to $1.8 billion. In terms of unit volume, sales this year will reach about 550 million books. Many of the new customers are former book-club members who find shopping in stores more convenient. As a result, hardcover sales by the clubs fell 4.5% last year, though inflation pushed up dollar volume by 7%, to $253 million. Helped by the chains' expansion...
...users to show their bursar's cards for only the past four years. "We used to have trouble with outside people who came in from the Square," Corliss says. "We couldn't ask them for I.D. if we asked no one else. Now, if they don't begin to reach for their cards, we ask for them...
...best-known play, A Month in the Country, completed in 1850, is being revived at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J. The company's reach exceeds its grasp by no small margin. Turgenev's setting is a vast country place filled with idle, frustrated souls who can turn a draw ing room into a tinderbox...