Word: stick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptians fear, however, that Begin may be playing the same game: trying to stick Sadat with the onus of intransigence. A possible Israeli ploy, according to high Egyptian officials, would be to propose detailed and complicated negotiations that ignore the basic issue of Arab sovereignty over the occupied lands. If Sadat balked at participating in such talks, he might look irresponsibly stubborn. Yet such detailed talks could drag on indefinitely, allowing Jerusalem to tighten further its hold on the occupied territories by building or expanding Israeli settlements there...
...wage-price controls are unworkable, and presidential jawboning too easy to defy, and balancing the budget takes too long, and tight money threatens recession, what is left to fight inflation? The answer, Washington officials are reluctantly concluding, just might be to use income taxes as a stick to beat or a carrot to lure workers and companies into holding wages and prices down...
...main issues still dividing Israel and Egypt are substantial. That is apparent in the differing proposals that each country has made in the past year (see box). Both Begin and Sadat declared on the eve of Camp David that they would stick by these proposals. Although the U.S. does not anticipate much flexibility in either side's opening position, it certainly hopes they will modify their views on some key points...
...still strong sentiment in Congress to limit, though not forbid, acquisitions in non-oil energy fields. Acquisitions of completely unrelated businesses, like Mobil's link with Marcor, probably will be held back both by political opposition and by :he feeling of most oil managements that they should stick to fields in which petroleum expertise is useful. One solution would be to sink money into development of all kinds of natural resources: potash, salt, sulfur, phosphates. Another would 5e simply to distribute more cash to stockholders. In any case, it is a problem many other industries wish they could foresee...
...startled minister stated his name. Kenyatta rapped the minister across the ears with his heavy walking stick. "Now," said Kenyatta smiling, "what is your name again?" The minister repeated it. Again the old President struck him hard across the head. "And what do they call you in the street?" the President asked...