Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Program on Negotiation, of which Susskind's group is a division, is a multi-university think tank which examines different ways of resolving conflicts which range from nuclear arms talks to school budgets...
...School think tank is refining a new way of debating public policy and settling disputes that proponents say is ultimately more effective and more democratic than normal governmental channels...
...only Syria is a military menace. Yet that has not translated into psychological security. Three dozen years after its birth, Israel faces problems never imagined by Yaacov Zvieli and other founders. "We now disagree among ourselves on everything," says Major General Israel Tal, the father of his country's tank industry. "It is not the environment that has changed or the political realities. It is we who have changed." Says Knesset Speaker Menachem Savidor, a member of the Liberal Party: "It appears as if we have returned to the tribal period, to the days of Joshua and the Judges, when...
...handsome new house in Paradise Valley, overlooking Phoenix, is calm now when calm is needed. There is a secretary to intercept phone calls and a maid to chase dust balls. Bombeck does not even know if there is a septic tank. Bill and Erma have separate offices, and she is in hers by 8 each morning, after walking a "killer mile" or puffing along with a videotaped exercise routine. At her desk she is all business. When she has time, she weaves twigs and bits of string into a play and says that the first act is in workable order...
...editor at McGraw-Hill, Gladys Justin Carr, recalls a lunch meeting in Chicago when Bombeck was publicizing her fifth book, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, hoping to match the previous sales of The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. As Bombeck was about to begin her speech, a procession of waiters entered, each bearing a bowl of cherries over his head. There was laughter, then