Word: salient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...port. In addition, a new ferry service linking Kyrenia and the Turkish mainland nearly 50 miles away will soon start. The Turkish Cypriots, who are outnumbered almost 5 to 1 by Greek Cypriots on the island of 659,000 people, apparently do not intend to relinquish any of the salient that has been won for them by the Turkish army. Said Rauf Denktas., leader of the 119,000 Turks on Cyprus: "We want Kyrenia to come back to normal, but it will be different now; we will be the master." Denktas. hinted that federation of the Turkish sector...
...Israelis withdrew from their salient inside Syria, thousands of refugees flocked south on the Damascus-Quneitra road to return to their land. When the day finally arrived for the takeover of the capital itself, thousands were packed along the dusty highway, waiting for the barriers to open...
...Syria, President Nixon could see visible proof of the searing nature of the problems that he was trying to help solve. As his plane approached the airport, he could detect in the distance the salient from which, by coincidence, Israeli troops that day were beginning to pull back in accordance with the disengagement agreement that Kissinger had worked out. One of the larger groups that watched the motorcade pass by was composed of Syrian refugees from the Golan Heights. The tough-looking young soldiers that guarded the airport and roads were armed with Russian-made AK-47s. Nixon...
These criticisms are not limited to Stott's discussion of the academics. Sentimentality, self-indulgence and a fundamentally exploitative relation to subject matter constitute the salient elements in his critiques of all aspects of the documentary movement...
...most salient fact about the department is that many of the graduate students, particularly those in the first year, are terribly unhappy with the academic program. Listening to the discourse of the Graduate Economics Club, one gets the idea that this is due primarily to the lack of radical economics course offerings. I would like to suggest that more fundamental reasons for the malaise are a) the teaching is often of poor quality, and b) there is no evidence that the department cares about the students. It is easy for a prospective economist to become disgusted with the poorly taught...