Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-delivered remarks were interrupted by applause 14 times. Addressing the deputies as "my friends, my brothers," he ended the televised speech by citing passages from the Old and New Testaments praising peace as the highest of man's virtues. And he quoted the Koran: "If thine adversary incline toward peace, do thou also incline toward peace, and trust in God." After the speech, Carter had one more working session with Sadat, then quickly toured the Great Pyramid at Giza. When told by a guide that the structure took only 20 years to build, Carter
While Radcliffe College was celebrating its hundredth anniversary, its sixth president, Psychologist Matina Horner, 39, cited these observations as a low-water mark against which to measure Radcliffe's 100-year drive toward equality with Harvard. "The intriguing thing," says Horner, "is that we have been working out at the institutional level the very things that men and women are facing today in their relationships, such as power and control, autonomy and commitment, the clashing of priorities, and self-esteem...
...trend, though, is toward charging. Psychiatrists long ago decided to bill all patients, including fellow doctors. Hospitals too have largely given up the practice of free care, as have many surgeons, especially since most doctors have health insurance to cover the bills. Thus, as Boston Pediatric Radiologist John Leonidas points out, "with all these third-party payers, professional courtesy is ultimately going to be obsolete anyway...
...posters, the generals provide a chilling argument. The assumption of The Third World War is that by 1985, the Soviet Union feels strong militarily but is increasingly unsure of its economic capacity and even less certain of its hold on the satellite nations. Its own Asian republics are drawn toward the new China-Japan co-prosperity sphere. Embarrassing riots in Poland convince Kremlin hard-liners that they must re-establish Soviet credibility by force. The decision is made to stir up fighting in black Africa, invade Yugoslavia and then sweep across West Germany to a stop-line at the Rhine...
Nelson has the same familial bonds that many baseball fans feel toward their teams. "I'll always be a Mets fan. I don't have to tell you what the most exciting day of sports broadcasting was for me. In that fifth game of the World Series in '69, I thought of what I had gone through with that team. Just before the end of the game, it dawned on me--the New York Mets were going to win the World Series...