Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Carter Administration is prepared to oblige on all three counts, as long as nothing really changes. For six years, the U.S. has been dealing with two Chinas while formally recognizing one China, Taiwan. Washington is willing to shift its formal recognition from Taiwan to Peking only on the condition...
Indeed, the Chinese?and the Japanese, for that matter?were right to treat this visit as a stupendous event. The sleeping giant of Asia, xenophobic, almost rabid in its suspicions of other nations, had awakened to the possibilities of the real world. It had decided to confront the Soviet Union...
Silberman is left with the unconsoling conclusion that until blacks and the poor are brought into society's mainstream, there is not a great deal courts and cops can do to cut down on crime. He finds a few examples of the poor taking a stake in improving their own...
Says John Strickland, a veteran of 25 years of farming and service as a county agricultural agent in Georgia: "Four or five hundred acres is about the minimum farm from which a decent living can be made. Buying that much land would cost between $400,000 and half a million...
Iowa's David Garst, one of the biggest U.S. farmer-businessmen (see box), argues that a young farmer can still get started if he is willing to rent land at first, buy used instead of. new machinery, and take a part-time job off the farm to supplement his income...