Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That he did not came as a relief to Begin. The Israeli Premier flew to Washington expecting to be pressed hard for concessions. He had indeed prepared a onepage, unyielding summary of Israeli positions that he handed to Carter at the start of their seven hours of intensive discussions, spread over two days. And, speaking to American Jewish leaders in Washington, Begin insisted that Jews have "an inherent and eternal right" to establish settlements in the West Bank...
...some Egyptian tales of Israeli intransigence. Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil has complained that when Egypt proposed that the Palestinians run their own health clinics, the Israelis protested that doing so would pose a security risk. Their reasoning: if an epidemic broke out in the West Bank, it could spread into Israel; thus Israel must continue to run the clinics. Similarly, according to Khalil, the Israelis asserted that the Palestinians could not be allowed to operate their own radio-TV broadcasting network for security reasons. While these stories are obviously one-sided, they do show the multitude of matters that must...
...Thirty years ago, Foster, whose degree came from a nonaccredited school in Massachusetts, paid $1,300 for some traps and pens from an abandoned Maryland rat farm, shipped them to Boston and went into business as Charles River Breeding Laboratories, Inc. Today Charles River, located on a 60-acre spread in Wilmington, Mass., is the world's largest supplier of animals for scientific research. In 1979 the firm netted $3 million on sales of $30 million and paid a dividend of 34? a share. This year the company will dispatch more than 18 million of its well-bred rats...
...William Rubin of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art said that Miró "is the major European progenitor of abstract expressionism." Miró would never have thought of himself as a progenitor. But the idea of an undefined background space haunted him. Over the years he spread across it an increasingly personalized iconography of symbols, of figures and faces and shapes. Miró's images run back to the ancient drawings from the caves of Altamira that he saw in his youth. "One must refine the magical sense of things," he said, and the symbols and signs...
...John Wilson strides into his office outside London, his hands at waist level, his fingers spread like antennae. Easing into a chair, he turns to a visitor and launches into a discussion of his life's work. Through his Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Wilson in the past three decades has helped establish blindness centers in over 80 nations. These centers are designed primarily to help those of the world's 42 million blind whose sight can be restored -and to prevent the diseases that still cause most...