Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both the Tigers and the Quakers had a reserve army of the unathletic on hand to support their cause, often obnoxiously. It didn't help...
...main issue in the dispute was the city's refusal to grant firefighters a written contract instead of the traditional hand-shake agreement unless the union agreed to a no-strike clause and binding arbitration...
...moment, events in Iran and Afghanistan have diverted the attention of both the American public and administration from matters closer at hand: the lack of substantive progress in the implementation of the Camp David accords, concluded between Egypt and Israel, with the U.S. as "guarantor" of sorts, and signed into treaty ten months ago in Washington. While Egypt and Israel have limped along towards some kind of "normalization" of relations, little else has concealed the complete failure of any of the signatories to act decisively as regards the core issue in the Middle East--the continuing frustration of the Palestinians...
...Saudi Arabia and Kuwait may press the U.S. less vigorously to respect Palestinian rights in the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and may even respond positively to U.S. persuasion to finance with petrodollars the defense-spending of "like-minded" regimes in the area (e.g. Pakistan). On the other hand, as the Arab royal families are perfectly aware, failure to press for Palestinian rights in peace negotiations and closer association with the U.S. are precisely the factors which will expose them to the kinds of attack to which they may be most vulnerable: those impelled by some form of religious...
...course, the general principle that we should back peoples rather than governments does not offer any precise guidelines for policy makers dealing with immediate crises like Afghanistan. On the other hand, its implementation should diminish the likelihood of our continually facing "Afghanistans;" that is, constantly having to "react' to situations which are already well beyond our control. If beginning with the Arab-Israeli conflict seems overly ambitious, this is justified by the gravity and potential dangers of that particular situation at the real level, and by the fact that at the symbolic level, the value in the Arab and Muslim...