Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...benefits the Soviet Union is up to the Soviet Union to avoid. But the Soviet Union can avoid exacerbating conflicts that may arise even if it did not cause them. That means they should not dispatch proxy forces, not encourage coups and create a general climate of insecurity, not sign friendship treaties under conditions that will lead to military operations. That burden we must assume, too, in any rational pattern of coexistence...
...1830s, and which continues today. Nicaraguans threw their own President, Jose Zelaya, out of office in 1909, because he had stirred up U.S. hostility when he told the U.S. that it would have to stop elsewhere for a site for the canal it planned to build. Zelaya refused to sign a treaty which he felt was unfairly advantageous...
...great thing, but I don't think you just inflate yourself out of a recession either." Twice this spring, at Federal Reserve System policy meetings, Volcker voted in the minority, against Chairman Miller, in favor of raising interest rates. By appointing him, Carter appears to be giving a sign that he will not dilute his anti-inflationary policies in order to stop an election-year recession. Said the President: "He shares my determination to vigorously pursue the battle against inflation at home and to ensure the strength and stability of the dollar abroad...
...search found a diverse and exciting group: educators, politicians, administrators, scientists. More than half are only in their 30s?which is an encouraging sign...
...Janet Frame's tenth novel concerns an Englishman's experiment with truth-seeking in the desert. He chooses a simmering patch of wasteland east of Berkeley, Calif., and in a few hours discovers that his dry run is the real thing. As he waits under a road sign for his wife to return, a jackrabbit bounds into his shadow to cool off. This is followed by three rapid epiphanies. First, that his life was a gift to himself and others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong to him alone. Second, that...