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...have to surrender administration, but remained determined to fix terms whereby its colony could continue flourishing in the freewheeling style to which it was accustomed. That move prompted the Chinese for the first time to agree to address specific issues, and in June a "joint working group" began to thrash out the details...
Running a patient, ball control offense and a tightly knit zone defense, Army embarrassed a visiting Harvard squad, 73-49, before 1000 at the Army Field House in West Point, N.Y. What the Cadets did was totally thrash a Crimson squad that played its poorest ball of the still-young season...
...outlays of fiscal 1981. Says Agriculture Secretary John Block: "The costs that we are looking at today really are unacceptable." In preparation for redrafting the current farm bill, which expires in 1985, Block last week convened a two-day, closed-door "summit" of farm and agricultural business leaders to thrash out long-range methods for cutting costs and surpluses and aiding farmers. High on the agenda: the nation's sinking share of farm export trade, resulting from a strong dollar, world recession and stiffer competition from overseas...
...seven world leaders came, ostensibly, to thrash out differences in trade policy and currency rates. But the most important consensus emerging from the ninth annual economic summit in Williamsburg, Va., last week had nothing to do with economics at all. In the hall that once reverberated with Patrick Henry's revolutionary oratory, the U.S., with the stout help of the British, forged an agreement among the allies to support resolutely NATO's plan to deploy nuclear weapons in Western Europe this year if no arms agreement can be reached with the Soviets...
...short of actually ending a bad marriage-buying a house, having an affair and having a baby are the most common, I suppose-but in the early 1970s there were at least two more. You could go into consciousness raising ... And you could sit down with your husband and thrash everything out... drawing up a list of household duties... This happened in thousands of households, with identical results: thousands of husbands agreed to clear the table. They cleared the table. They cleared the table and then looked around as if they deserved a medal. They cleared the table and then...