Word: schemings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next ten or 12 months, we should keep our eye on three different arenas. First, there is the negotiation between Egypt, Israel and the U.S., which aims at giving substance to the ambiguous and open-ended Camp David agreement on a five-year, transitional autonomy scheme for the West Bank and Gaza. Second, there is the strained relationship between the U.S. (and Egypt) on the one hand, and the rest of the Arab world, which has denounced the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and attacked the Camp David agreement as unacceptable. Thirdly, there is the complicated game that goes on between...
...perhaps to attract Jordan and to divide the Palestinians in the occupied territories into rejectionists and gradualists. But such an agreement is not likely to be endorsed by the other Arabs, including Jordan, insofar as it will most probably leave East Jerusalem outside the scope of the autonomy scheme, leave the issue of Israeli settlements unresolved, and continue not to grant explicitly to the Palestinians the right of self-determination at the end of five years...
...with the Arabs other than Egypt--a rift that may have serious effects on the price and quantities of Saudi oil--will have to find a new way, and return to the idea of a comprehensive settlement. If, on the contrary, the West Bank Palestinians, while denouncing the autonomy scheme as insufficient, decide, in agreement with the PLO and Jordan, to run for office and to keep pressing for an enlargement of their powers and for full self-determination after five years, Begin will appear as having played the role of the sorcerer's apprentice when he launched the idea...
...unit from reaching the open market. "It is yet another example of Harvard's ongoing maneuvering to make it difficult for Cambridge residents to buy property in their city," David Sullivan, a city council candidate, said. "It is only one unit, but it is part of a consistent scheme," Sullivan said, adding "even small violations call into question Harvard credibility...
Under his startling scheme, Americans no longer would pay taxes on their total income, which includes savings that are now actually subjected to double taxation (first when the money is earned and later when it draws interest or dividends). Instead, they would pay taxes on only the money they spent, thus creating a powerful incentive for saving. Impossible? Not at all, says Boskin, who adds that since interest and dividend payments also would be tax exempt, U.S. capital accumulation would rise to new highs, thus revitalizing the private sector of the economy...