Word: rift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite outward signs of a growing rift between labor and the Administration, the reform package had been under negotiation for about three months between Meany and Carter aides. To get Carter's support, labor agreed to put aside temporarily its campaign to repeal...
...brouhaha. They need not have worried. The critiques of Hellman's politics are appendices to a masterwork of social and literary criticism. Like Hellman, Trilling came of political age in the '30s, when, as she writes, "partisanship with or opposition to Communism made the great intellectual rift in this country." In those days people like Hellman were called Stalinists, though it was a term they would not have chosen for themselves. Hellman publicly supported Stalin's Great Purges, traveled frequently to Moscow and was even invited to meet and interview the dictator in the Kremlin. A decade...
Some OPEC leaders have tried to close the rift, but so far without success. The latest attempt was made by President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. In a fast-paced tour of the Middle East, Perez sought to persuade his warring OPEC colleagues to accept a compromise. His proposal was presumably along these lines: the Eleven would forgo the 5% price increase scheduled to go into effect in July; in return, so the speculation goes, the Saudis and Emirates would allow their prices to rise, gradually closing the 10% differential...
Exploring the bottom of the Pacific, some 2,700 meters (9,000 feet) below the waves, scientists aboard vessels from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution were looking for underwater geysers or "hot spots." They were conducting their search along the Galapagos Rift, where lava from the earth's molten interior rises toward the surface between two great crustal plates. Such depths are thought to be relatively barren of nutrients-and thus of life. But photographs from the deep revealed small areas, each around a warm spring, that were teeming with clams, mussels, tube worms and scavenger crabs. The probable...
...several months, Sadat has been busily building up his position as the Arab world's primary peacemaker. He has told dozens of visiting U.S. Congressmen: "I am not preparing for war, I am preoccupied with peace." With the support of the Saudis, he healed a rift with Syria's President Hafez Assad that had been caused by the Syrian incursion into Lebanon last May. Prior to the summit meeting of Arab and African leaders in Cairo last month, he got Jordan's King Hussein to agree to federation with a still-to-be-formed Palestinian state. This...