Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders: "We are ready to transfer the airbase at Sharm el Sheikh to the U.N. and keep some civilian installations there for a limited period. We are ready to restore your sovereignty over all of Sinai and to put our settlements in the Rafah area under your flag. We suggest small Israeli civilian settlements [in Sinai] instead of army installations. The buffer zone between the two armies in Sinai should be enlarged so that there will be no chance of a future confrontation...
Such cases suggest that a name is not a passive label. Some names, weirdly enough, manage to penetrate to the core of the named, achieving a profound fusion, becoming inextricable. Certain names become so incorporated with the acts or traits or destinies of their owners that they pop into the popular vocabulary as common nouns and adjectives: Cain, Jeremiah, Job (the Bible is a storehouse of such), Machiavelli, De Sade, McCarthy. The same peculiar joining of character and name occurs all the time, even in the fictive world. Romeo is as inseparable from the youth so named...
There may be more serious abuses in backroom dealings between lobbyist and lawmaker, as past scandals and the Korean bribery affair suggest. Yet on balance the relationship between the governors and the governed, even when the lobbyist does represent one of the nation's many special-interest groups, is often mutually beneficial, and perhaps indispensable, to the fullest workings of democracy. The increasingly knowledgeable and competent Washington lobbyist supplies a practical knowledge vital to the writing of workable laws. He does it at no public expense?and at only the cost of being sure his own interests get the fullest...
Peres: To force the negotiations to move, we will have to call the Jordanians into the peace negotiations and suggest that they share with us the administration of the West Bank for the duration of the interim period. I would not exclude joint patrols, joint police forces and all other types of practical cooperation. [The Labor Party] has already agreed to U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied territories. The Vienna document put forth by Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and drafted by Abba Eban is more clearly defined...
...projects include studies of the New York subways, tenant farmers during the Depression (Let us Now Praise Famous Men], Chicago streets. Coney Island, Victorian architecture, Cuban scenes and hundreds of photographs documenting roadside stands, interiors and corners of rooms. In his essay "The Artist of the Real," Alan Trachtenberg suggests Evans' work was inspired not by painters or by other artists, but by literature, the writings of Flaubert, Proust, Joyce, Whitman and Henry James. "He arrived at his proper point of view through the spirit of objective realism, aesthetic autonomy, respect for feeling and epiphany in common life, that...