Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defense stories over the past few years, regularly read, clip and stockpile a remarkable variety of military periodicals. "Reading Aviation Week and Strategic Review can be quite interesting," Sutter says, "once you have broken the language barrier." According to Pines, she has done exactly that. Says he: "Betty can talk throw-weights and payloads with the best of them...
...Brazilian living in the U.S. for more than 16 years, I have come to learn what it means for American Presidents to talk about being a "friendly neighbor" to other countries. Leave the "friendly" out; put in "greedy" instead. The U.S. does not give without taking, and the taking is disproportionate...
...still not very satisfied at the way the British are handling things. When they proceeded without us to talk to the Salisbury group, it confirmed our suspicions: Lord Carrington just wants to show the world an acceptable constitution and then say that the Patriotic Front is refusing to implement this reasonable document because the interim arrangements are not to its satisfaction. They want to lift sanctions and pass legislation for a government that will play their tune. This is what I call the law of Moses. Carrington is the type of man who believes he can make no mistakes...
...story of the CCC actually begins last summer, when, according to Goetz, "a bunch of us got together to talk about Cambridge." The group particular about issues, instead it wanted to "depolarize" the city council. "There at least two sides to all these issues," Goetz reasons, adding that "city councilors aren't even willing to talk to each other." With the hope of getting Cambridge City government out of deadlock, they endorsed a "moderate slate, filled with people willing to talk and talk until they reached fundamental agreement...
...premise is as wrong as the solution is unlikely. The councilors are not divided on anything except the issues, on which they represent their constituents. They laugh, they dance, they eat, they even talk together, sometimes until 2 a.m. at council meetings. But all the jovialty and talking does not shift their positions, and it shouldn't. Walter Sullivan piles up votes year after year in large part because his constituents don't want rent control at all. If Mary Ellen Preusser ever "moderated" her pro-rent control stand, she would be stealing the apartments away from those who elected...