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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most immediate benefits of our new relationship with the PRC may be a stabilization of the global balance of power. While some will argue that Carter has played the China "trump card" too early in the game, improved communication with Asia's greatest power can only ease the tension in the delicate game of superpower diplomacy. The United States can only gain by maintaining "detente" with both Russia and China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The China Card | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...order to see if some sort of compromise can be reached before the contract deadline. Convinced that the miners are just now getting their demands straightened out, the employers seem in no hurry to oblige. But the mine owners could overplay their hand. Paradoxically, the U.M.W.'s trump card is that a prolonged strike could destroy the national union, leaving owners to deal entirely with the fractious, wildcatting locals. It is a thought that must have John L. Lewis spinning rapidly in his grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Striking out of Weakness? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...sympathize with Mr. Bok's desire to do it himself, because the president of a university has very few trump cards to play in the determination of the shape of his faculty," Blacklow said...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Bok Picks Med School Dean; Tosteson Will Replace Ebert | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

...attempt to control the center, the two moderates have taken conflicing stances within their own party platforms, so that support from both left and right will be scattered in both camps. However, Bentsen's strong support from organized labor may be the trump card that allows him to eek out a narrow victory...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: From Sea to Shining Sea: Races for Congress and The Governor's Mansion | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

...Vise group, as a result, is using the arrests as its trump card is agitating for the settlement of the dispute. Already, the group has organized a 300-student demonstration cum administration building occupation to push for building general amnesty for those arrested, and further plans to stage demonstrations on behalf of the library workers and the arrested students during Brown's upcoming freshman parents' weekend...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Brown on Trial: 'We're going to resist them every inch of the way.' | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

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