Word: summonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even Harvard's--is best suited to be: an open vehicle for presenting the best of student art, photography and writing, whatever circle it may come from. Now the Advocate has opened the door to its sanctum, and its only a matter of time before whatever talent it can summon will be welcomed...
...rail strike is a case in point. Though already granted a 42% wage hike, the United Transportation Union was resisting changes in costly and long-obsolete work rules, fearing they would lead to a restricting of both income and jobs. Nixon did summon leaders of both sides to express his concern, and Mc-Cracken explained that if the walkout continues through August it would reduce the anticipated gross national product by $50 billion-three times the cost of the General Motors strike. Although the usual emergency legislation to stop a rail strike was prepared, by week's end Nixon...
...sight of the importance of its relations with the U.S.S.R. in preventing nuclear war. Yet a diplomatic minuet was required to get the point across. Moscow, apparently determined to express no alarm over the 'Washington-Peking rapprochement, did not seek a U.S. explanation-and Rogers was reluctant to summon the Soviet ambassador. But Anatoly Dobrynin's visit to the State Department on a routine matter gave U.S. officials a convenient opportunity to invite him to stop by Rogers' office. The two talked for 35 minutes. Rogers assured Dobrynin that Nixon meant the U.S.S.R. when he stated...
...golden Bengal how much strength can man summon before the small body is crushed...
...definition of secure borders increasingly irritates Washington as well as Cairo. Mrs. Meir is aware of this. "We are very sorry," she told the Labor Party delegates, "that we are engaged in an argument which may well grow bitter." Indeed it may. If Egypt is able to summon an emergency Security Council meeting, the U.S. could be faced with an uncomfortable dilemma. As Israel's protector and last remaining major friend, the U.S. would probably veto any censure of Israel that called for a return of all captured territory. Yet this would in effect mean vetoing a policy similar...