Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that a BBC official advised all three County Commissioners that BBC was opposed to the hiring of PCM to manage the county's public works construction. In fact, the newspapers reported, a letter to that effect was written and prepared to be sent to the commissioners. However, for some reason the letters were never sent. About one month later, the BBC instead sent a letter saying there was no conflict with the BBC in the county's hiring a construction management company such as PCM, and that the BBC was "willing to cooperate and work in concert with the group...
When pauses came in the Blair House Middle East negotiations, some of the delegates leaned back and looked at the wall. A somber visage was there to remind them of what happens when reason fails. There is a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant...
Washington so far has balked at this tradeoff. Reason: such a limitation would infuriate key U.S. allies, notably West Germany and Britain, which count on these weapons for a credible defense against Soviet attack. NATO could be seriously weakened if West Europeans think their security is being ignored by the U.S. in its bilateral dealings with Moscow...
...Baath (resurrection) party, a pan-Arab movement founded some 40 years ago. Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council holds the hard-line view that the U.S. lacks the will or the power to put enough pressure on Israel to restore Arab rights in the occupied territories. Therefore, the Iraqis reason, the Arabs must do the job themselves. With Egypt committed to a peace agreement with Israel, the Iraqis invited the Syrians to join in forming a united front to create a plausible new military threat to Israel. Thus, last week, the two Arab Presidents signed a "charter for joint national...
...reason does not lie in black genes, says Silberman, or the "cultural baggage" that blacks brought over from Africa. Rather, violence is something blacks learned in the U.S. "For most of their history in this country, in fact, blacks were victims, not initiators, of violence." As one Southern police official summed up justice for blacks before World War I, "If a nigger kills a white man, that's murder. If a white man kills a nigger, that's justifiable homicide. If a nigger kills another nigger, that's one less nigger." Or, as a Negro blues song put it, "White...