Word: val
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When the teams returned to the court, the pattern showed no signs of reversing itself, as the Maroons quickly added 11 points to their lead. Eight minutes into the period, Kleinfelder sent freshman Val Jordan and sophomore Jenny Rudolph in to join starters Pat Horne, Wendy Joseph, and Marget Long, and the rejuvenated five began to assert itself...
...scheme, the official explained, would have to await the anticipated re-election of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, in May, but he suggested that the planning begin. The meeting broke up with no decision being made. Still, U.S. officials agreed to keep the talks going. The venture came to an abrupt halt when Giscard was unexpectedly defeated at the polls by Socialist Francois Mitterrand...
...agrees with the U.S. decision to produce a neutron weapon, and has confirmed that France will continue to study the development of its own. On Poland, on Afghanistan, on the nature of the Soviet threat, Mitterrand has staked out positions more reassuring to Washington than those of former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. He will be "vigilant," Mitterrand promised at his first press conference, to ensure that "by 1985 the Soviet Union and its allies do not have the means to allow them, in the space of a few instants, to dominate the world...
...Always the interests of state must supersede any personal feelings. Whether as friends or adversaries they approach each other with heavy manipulative intentions. They want from each other. They are wary. Jerry Ford may have transcended this kind of calculation, and was a true friend of France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Canada's Pierre Trudeau. Honest and decent, Ford was special in his time, spared through Watergate the terrible ordeal of climbing to power and so spared the rituals of political calculation that can twist a man's nature...
...sooner had he moved into the Elysée Palace than he set about reflating the economy to fight France's record 7.7% unemployment. True to his campaign promises, he reversed predecessor Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's cautious policy by introducing a budget calling for 27% higher public spending and a $17 billion deficit. He made good on a longstanding pledge to take over private banks and key industries. He increased welfare benefits to families, the aged and the handicapped. But last week President François Mitterrand was forced to administer a dose...