Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his presidential campaign, Carter declared that he was "particularly concerned by our nation's role as the world's leading arms salesman." Last May, in issuing guidelines to change that role, he declared that the dollar volume of 1978 arms transfers would "be reduced from the fiscal year 1977 total" and that such sales would be "an exceptional foreign policy implement." The guidelines also stated that the U.S. would no longer be a "first supplier to introduce [advanced weapons] into a region." Last week Carter took a more specific step: he placed an $8.6 billion ceiling...
...secular, outgoing urban Quebecois, with typically North American tastes for big cars, color-television sets and le rock. Quebeckers trained in economics and sociology thronged into the glass-and-steel cubicles of a mushrooming provincial bureaucracy. But despite this rattrapage (catching up), English-speaking Canadians retained their dominant role in business. Among the 105 largest private companies in Quebec, only 14 have a majority of French-speaking directors; in the other 91, only 9% of directors are Francophones. French remained the dominant language on the factory floor, where Gallic Quebeckers held disproportionate numbers of the lowest-paying jobs. English...
Ford added the committee planned to concentrate on the role of student theater at the Loeb under Brustein's plan...
There is a danger in the "arrogance that is growing among reporters," Freed said. "We are suddenly players" in the foreign affairs game, "but we should be playing the passive role of being reporters," he added...
...this town that Jimmy Carter may well be a one-term President. Carter was recently quoted on the radio here as saying that when he is finished being President, he'd like to become a foreign missionary for the Baptist Church. It would be his goal in such a role, said the President, "to turn some country back to God and back to us." The President may get his chance to convert all those pagans out there before he thinks...