Word: renew
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...scramble to success, Reeves has had to spread himself thin-too thin, according to Harper's editors, who did not renew his one-year arrangement with the magazine in 1972. But Reeves has recently been trying to reduce his commitments. Last May he left the TV job with relief ("I felt like Barbara Walters in drag"), and plans to write only one more book about politics; it will be on the 1976 campaign. "After that, maybe I'll get a cabin and write fiction," Reeves says. "I love politics. It's more interesting than the National Football...
...Corn has to be harvested and a score of purebred Black Angus cattle need attention. As for those 80 good acres of rentable farm land, Csonka's football experience came in handy. He instructed his lawyer to draw up a five-year contract with a yearly option to renew...
...Syrian strategy seemed clearly designed to discredit Sadat in the Arab world on the eve of his departure to Washington. Damascus apparently intends to raise tension on the Golan to draw world attention to this unsolved problem, and President Hafez Assad has warned that Syria may not renew the U.N. force mandate, which expires on Nov. 30. By contrast, the peacekeeping-force mandate for the Sinai was approved last week by the Security Council by a vote of 13 to 0, with two abstentions...
...enthusiasm for the environmental movement has receded far from its Earth Day peak, when Capitol Hill anxious to capitalize on the popular issue passed much of the legislation now crucial to the ecology movement. This year environmentalists lobbying on the Hill are finding it increasingly difficult to pass or renew important legislation. It's anyone's guess how long the lawyers can hold on with only the legislative spoils of the past...
...most symbolically important contest had yet to be decided. Chavez and his supporters have been boycotting the wines of the E. & J. Gallo Winery -California's largest producer-since 1973, when Gallo officials declined to renew their contract with the U.F.W. and instead signed with the Teamsters. At that time, workers did not vote their own preference for which union would represent them. The growers negotiated directly with the union heads. Last week 233 Gallo grape pickers voted to stick with the Teamsters, while 131 chose the U.F.W. But both unions challenged 198 ballots-throwing the outcome in doubt...