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Carter's statements have been twofold. First, he has made extensive efforts to assure all parties, including the Soviet Union, that the United States wishes to remain neutral. Second, he has said the United States "cannot rule out" the use of force to keep the Strait of Hormuz open...
...that the deal had fallen through. But the official U.S. posture, as one State Department expert put it, was that "everything that was supposed to happen is happening." In a press conference last week, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance insisted once again that "the commission's mission is twofold: to hear the Iranian grievances and also to bring about the speedy release of the hostages and thus bring an end to the crisis...
Dreyfus' purpose is twofold. First, he wants to reduce the PACs' influence over individual politicians. Noting that Louisiana's candidates for Governor last year spent a total of about $20 million, he declared: "I just don't want to wait until we have that problem here. If we don't do something about it, we're headed for the best government that money can buy." Second, Dreyfus wants to revive the state's Democratic and Republican parties, which are nearly broke. By passing the PACs' cash on to candidates, the parties would...
April Shawhan (Dierdre) is most convincing in her dissolution. Its cause is twofold; a redoubtable father, and a unwieldy imagination. She's pretty but tarnished, a potential alcoholic perhaps, whose zest for discovery is insatiable. Of the three, she best expresses the frailty that foreruns her breakdown. When it comes, it's not an abrupt transition, but rather the natural product of a life of disorder. She alone seems to have grappled with all this before the play's action began...
...change itself is not the enemy. Our concern is twofold. We must work to dampen conflict, to maintain peace, and we must make clear that it is dangerous for outside powers to try to exploit for their own selfish benefits this inevitable turmoil...