Word: greater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week at a special U.N. conference on the Cambodian catastrophe; he also reaffirmed President Carter's pledge of $69 million to the international relief effort. Said Vance: "I can think of no issue now before the world community and before every single nation that can lay greater claim to our concern and to our action...
...role for the U.S. in the Irish situation: President Carter in 1977 indicated the interest of the American people in seeing an end to the violence in Ireland. He would then encourage greater investment and aid to Northern Ireland, which is very welcome. There is also the role of the so-called four horsemen [Senator Edward Kennedy, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, Senator Daniel Moynihan and New York Governor Hugh Carey]. That people of their caliber are aware of the damage that is being done is very helpful...
Miller's announcement last week was deliberately timed to follow Chrysler's latest loss report, the better to make the Administration's motives seem purely economic. The Secretary explained that the higher aid package was necessary in part because the company now needed "greater resources than were apparently required in August." Actually, the Administration had known that Chrysler's third-quarter deficit would be huge, and in fact last September the company had forecast an even larger loss...
Lyrics have always been less important to Fleetwood Mac than strong melodies and close harmonies. The subject matter of their songs is nearly always the disappointments of love. On Tusk these disappointments are explored in even greater detail than they were in Rumours; virtually every cut deals with lovers leaving or leaving one's lover. Only the final song on the album. "Never Forget," relieves the pervasive gloom; in this otherwise typical song, love finally triumphs: "Come on baby now don't you be cold/just remember that love is gold/could we ever forget tonight...
...strong showing in Southie and Roxbury testifies to his careful handling of the delicate busing question--and perhaps paves the way for greater unity of a city split apart by race...