Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barring disaster, the Begin-Sadat Christmas meetings could produce an umbrella declaration of principles and perhaps a token arrangement of mutual good will. After that, the Cairo conference already in session could itself be raised to the ministerial level for purposes of negotiating a detailed settlement. Sadat has told TIME (see interview) of his willingness to make his arrangements with Begin, and then inform the other Arab states that he has negotiated a framework in which they too can negotiate. In effect, Sadat is thinking of a separate peace with sequels?leaving the other Arabs to work on their...
...been, for the past quarter-century, the Tsavo National Park in Kenya, a place ringed by political (and thus, from the elephants' point of view, irrational) boundaries. This "sanctified ghetto," as a former director of game research in Tsavo bitterly describes it, was an unbroken stretch of umbrella forest only two generations ago. Since then the elephants, condemned to death by overcrowding, have eaten much of the Tsavo down to bare laterite earth. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace"-the ancient Roman epigram is the epitaph to East Africa's conservation policy...
Teachers are capable of doublespeak too. During last week's award ceremony, a spokesman for the award committee was asked to define doublespeak. "It's an umbrella term," he replied after an awkward silence, "a high-level abstraction to describe pernicious use of language." At least he winced as he said...
During the 1930s Depression, the Broederbond provided financial aid to thousands of poor Afrikaners. It also founded the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Organizations (F.A.K.), which evolved into an umbrella organization that now coordinates hundreds of national cultural societies. Concentrating on education, the Broederbond opposed the language policy of Prime Minister Jan Smuts in the 1940s, under which Afrikaner children were taught half their subjects in English and the remainder in their native tongue. Since 1948 the Broederbond has completely controlled the educational policy of South Africa; Afrikaner schools perpetuate the philosophy of Christian nationalism and exclusive Afrikanerism...
Madson said last week "censorship-that's not what I'm concerned about at all. A publication that is done under the legal umbrella of the university makes the university responsible for the paper...