Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Partly because of Washington's displeasure over Begin's rigidity during the recent peace negotiations, there are sign that Jerusalem may be moving toward a more flexible position. Six weeks ago, Begin shocked the Carter Administration by declaring that U.N. Resolution 242-which, among other things, calls for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories-did not apply to the West Bank. At week's end Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan announced that his government now "regards 242 as the only basis for negotiations" leading to a peace treaty with its neighbors, including Jordan. The Israelis were clearly implying that...
...retire at 37 and draw a full pension for the rest of his life. Thomas V. Jones, chairman of Northrop, a major defense contractor, charges that the Pentagon and its suppliers have come to accept cost overruns as a way of life. He urges that the Defense Department sign fixed-price contracts with no renegotiations allowed. If costs cannot be estimated accurately, says Jones, the military should award a prototype or development contract rather than a production contract...
...these hard-hats belong to the New York Coalition of Black and Puerto Rican Construction Workers, and that ten-foot-long "Beat Back Bakke" sign they're holding up removes any doubt. You start talking to one of the hard-hats, and find that he is more than willing to explain his concern about the Bakke case. "Bakke is not only affecting the schools, it is affecting us," he says. "Ours is a job that the average person could do without a high school diploma or college degree, and still make a decent wage. Right now, minority hiring in construction...
...freshman said Thursday night, "I simply do not like coming into the Union and being pressured right away to sign something...
...regularly engaged in fox hunts, and one member enthusiastically wrote at the time: "The hounds only arrived last week from England, and came on the steamship 'Glamorgan,' and they were landed in fine condition, showing that they were well cared for on the steamer, not one indicating the least sign of mange, which dogs are apt to contract at sea. The hounds are of the bluest of 'blue blood,' and were personally selected by Lord Willhoughby de Broke, master of the South Warwickshire (England) Pack...