Word: communique
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice, the scheme seems little more than a device for institutionalizing chaos, which in recent weeks has sent the price of oil leaping to as much as two and even three times the officially quoted rate of $14.55 per bbl. After the cartel's communiqué was read to reporters at the Hotel Inter-Continental, and delegates had rushed to their gas-guzzling limousines parked at curbside, Saudi Arabia's natty oil ministers Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, said, "I don't blame you if you are confused...
With that military threat in mind, Carter and Park issued a joint communiqué that, for the first time, invited North Korea to a tripartite meeting. The invitation is designed to cancel out the propaganda advantage that Pyongyang had gained with its recent-and obviously hollow-overtures to Seoul on talks aimed at reunifying the long-divided land. The long-term objective of the proposal appears to be to stabilize the volatile military situation...
...both the Soviet and American summiteers hope, Brezhnev has a series of good days this weekend, he and Carter might conduct negotiations that would be-in fact as well as in the parlance of the communiquės-frank, businesslike and useful. But if, as both sides fear, Brezhnev has a relapse, the meeting could be little more than an anticlimactic signing ceremony, tediously stretched out over four days. It would also be a lost, probably last opportunity for these two men, who are meeting for the first time, to thresh out some of their differences in a period...
Unlike U.S. judges, Chinese judges have not been independent, but beholden to the party. A Central Committee communiqué issued in December hints at the debate now going on with this waffling message: "Procuratorial and judicial organizations must maintain their independence as is appropriate...
...read causes cramps and vertigo," he mutters, warming himself up to a fine frenzy over "the works of Scriblerus X. Machina," as he dubs the bulletins from the chairman of the college's communications department, or perhaps the "feats of Clay," as he cruelly pun-points the communiqués of one Glassboro dean. "A detailed analysis," he worries out loud, "might well cause irreversible brain damage." But he risks it. One writer's offenses against God and good English, pretty much the same thing to Mitch, are carefully totted up: seven "comma faults," three "failures" of subject...