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...Signal our willingness to abandon the confrontational track. Salvadorean and international public opinion perceive the US as being committed to a military solution in Central America. We must signal our willingness to abandon this course of action under certain conditions if an appropriate environment for negotiations is to emerge. To do so we must consider...
...never going to abandon a sense of humor. If you get so serious that you lose all perspective, you don't serve anybody well, particularly yourself...
...essentially trustworthy leader-is the preferred choice for Prime Minister in the country as a whole (with a 24% approval rating, compared with 22% for Peres and 12% for Begin). If Peres wins decisively in the convention, say with more than 2,100 votes, Rabin may have to abandon any further challenge to his archrival. If the outcome is close, Rabin will have a powerful say in the makeup of any future Labor government...
...Richard Dreyfuss), it is the last chance; pushing 30, he feels that if he does not win this piano competition he might as well abandon his dream of a concert career and take the job back home teaching music in the public schools. For her (Amy Irving), it is the first big opportunity; if, at 21, she wins, then her career will be launched as a near prodigy. A loss will hardly be the end of the world. Because there is less pressure on her, it makes sense that she should act the sweet aggressor in their relationship, and that...
...Corporation had no choice but to abandon the possibility of participation in the DNA company, at least until these three aspects of the issue could be examined further. Bok has said that he hopes the Faculty will continue to look into the broad question of Faculty involvement in outside ventures. Across every aspect of academic life, the DNA company decision stirs long-dormant questions about Faculty members' relationships to the outside world in consulting, publishing, political advising, jockeying for government and foundation grants, and professional practice. In their debates, the Faculty and the Corporation ought to widen their focus...