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Although the delicately-phrased question had a "soft" character, federalists and separatists alike considered the vote to have immense symbolic significance, which may have spurred the alarmist sentiments popping up out of context in the U.S. media. The referendum had no air of finality; if it had, Levesque's step-by-step plan would be vitiated. However, it proved in the interests of the No forces marshalled by Trudeau and Claude Ryan, head of the Quebec Liberal Party and provincial opposition leader, to inflate the importance of the vote and appeal to patriotism...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: If at First You Don't Secede... | 5/27/1980 | See Source »

...specific step-by-step plan for the truce, nor was it seeking an all-parties truce conference involving direct negotiations between Israel and the P.L.O. "We're not that stupid," says an Administration source. "We will deal with the Israelis and the U.N., and we will deal with the Lebanese. The Lebanese will deal with the Palestinians and with the Christian militia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Battles, Plans and Travels | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Five of the 11 speakers at the meeting said they have signed a letter, now circulating among the Faculty, that calls on the Corporation to follow a step-by-step plan to encourage corporate withdrawal from South Africa...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi and James L. Tyson, S | Title: Faculty Discusses Handling Of S. Africa Investment Policy | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

...that acquire dollars through normal commercial operations?could see only that the inflation rate was rising in the U.S. while it was going down in other countries, and Washington in their view was doing little to check it. Different sections of the Government were even working against each other. Step-by-step increases in interest rates forced by the Fed failed to halt an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply. So those who sold dollars regarded the sales as a can't-lose bet. Their thinking: So what if the dollar is undervalued? It will probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rescue the Dollar | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...Soon it's wedding bells, but not not Mia, who devotes herself to pursuing the lovebirds around the world and ruining their honeymoon. She pops up on top of a pyramid in Egypt, to which the lovers have raced their steeds across the desert sands and then struggled upwards, step-by-step. Finally the lucky couple ditch her in the streets of an unidentified Egyptian city, and board, and board their cruise down the Nile, servent...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Christie on the Nile | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

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