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...astounding as its implications In fact, nothing quite like it had occurred since 1666, when New ton, at 23, had left Cambridge and taken refuge in Lincolnshire from the bubonic plague and in that isolation studied the spectrum of light, invented calculus and aid the groundwork for his universal theory of gravitation and motion...
...thought it up about two months ago, but when he offered it at an informal meeting on Administration goals, the reaction was leaden. "Everyone said, 'Can't we come up with something better?' " one aide recalls. Apparently not. Indeed, some of the alternatives were clearly worse -"groundwork," for example, or "building blocks." And though "new" is one of the oldest terms in political rhetoric, repeatedly reappearing as in "New Deal" or "New Frontier," the Carter team played with the idea of "improved...
...impressive organization have kept a revolution aflame. At once simple and complex, that organization made impressive use of tape recorders and telephones to disseminate a political message suffused with an ancient spirituality. From the start of his exile in Turkey and Iraq in 1964, Khomeini laid the groundwork for the revolution in talks with his students. Taped cassettes carried his messages back to the mosques in Iran, and to Iranian student organizations around the world...
Affection very quickly turned to estrangement after the Syrian peace keepers ordered the Maronites to lay down their arms, while making no similar demands on the Palestinians. Chamoun and Gemayel began laying the groundwork for partitioning Lebanon and creating a pro-Israeli Maronite state along Syria's border. When Gemayel's Phalangists murdered the son of Assad's friend Franjieh and more than 35 other pro-Syrian Christians in June, Syria became convinced that the plot was already in motion. Assad was further alarmed when the Camp David talks foreshadowed a separate Israeli-Egyptian peace, thereby tipping...
Vogel said exchange agreements will not actually be made as a result fo the visti to Harvard, but that the meeting will lay the groundwork for solving such problems as finacing, visas, counseling and testing...