Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consciousness of most Tunisians. But it would be unfair to say that men are uniformly horrified by and opposed to the trends it represents. They just hope it all happens gradually and does not result in the untempered, immoral freedom they see in the conduct of Western women. Some spoke in vague terms of upgrading the status of women toward some Islamic ideal. But they could offer no historical model for this, and its realization is doubtful because Tunisia, a French protectorate until 1956, has become even more subject to Western influences since independence. More tourists are coming, more Tunisians...
...learner and has enough self-confidence to admit when he has not yet studied an issue sufficiently to make up his mind. After his meeting with Carter earlier this month, British Prime Minister James Callaghan returned to London and said that he had never before met a statesman who spoke with such openness. Above all, Carter has left no doubt that he is in charge of making U.S. policy. Remarks a White House insider: "Stuff the criticism. He said what he was going to do. He won the election and now he's doing...
...McCarthy spoke for an hour and then answered questions from the audience...
...vernal equinox arrived to formally announce spring. The snow glittered as it swirled around headlights and street lamps. It covered Cambridge clean and white beneath the black sky. The Square, too, swirled--with its overload of traffic, its wanderers, its happy groups, its solitary, carefully-dressed people whose hurry spoke of imminent rendezvous...
...history of the Mexican-American relationship, and America's historic dominance, creates an obligation for the United States to help avert the crisis of which Lopez Portillo spoke. Lopez Portillo asked for additional financial support, investment subject to Mexico's laws and special trade concessions; but behind all this was a request for a more sensitive and responsible approach to the relationship. The United States should not dismiss Mexico's problems as a matter of domestic concern. There is an interdependence, even if it is more like a dependent interdependence...