Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington's feeling that the strength of the U.S. negotiating team is a matter of no great moment seemed to be reflected in the announcement that Kaplan will not be replaced by a senior foreign-service officer "for the foreseeable future." The steadiest hand in the delegation thus remains that of the No. 3 negotiator, Philip Charles Habib, 49, a career diplomat from Brooklyn who has been with the talks since they started. He bridges the shift from Averell Harriman to Lodge as head of the delegation and seems to have the right temperament for staying with the dull...
...something to do. "I certainly didn't get involved in this adventure with you," he told Scialoja, "to come and rest in a Western country. The fight against dictatorship must unite us all. At this moment, all political forces must collaborate for the restoration of democracy in Greece...
...hiring and promotion. But last month, despite that vow, the regents voted to fire Professor Davis-a Brandeis Phi Beta Kappa, a protegee of New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse and a onetime Black Panther-because she is, by her own admission, a member of the Communist Party. For the moment, she is being allowed to give non-credit lectures pending the outcome of her appeal to a faculty committee on privilege and tenure...
...moment the center's situation room may be monitoring events as varied as an outbreak of leaf-cutting ants in Peru, an unusual polar bear kill in the Arctic, or the drift of a floating island in the Caribbean. After the flight of Apollo 11, it reported the lunar rumblings recorded by the seismometer left behind at Tranquillity Base. Even the recent discovery of a primitive jungle tribe in Surinam fell within the category of passing phenomena. Reason: the Indians' Stone Age culture will change so rapidly under the impact of civilization that anthropologists may lose a rare...
Treasury Secretary David Kennedy is becoming an increasing source of embarrassment to the Nixon Administration. His chronic foot-in-mouth habits, which are costly in terms of both dollars and prestige, began to be revealed the moment that he was appointed. Last December, Kennedy said that he wanted "to keep every option open," including the option of asking for an increase in the price of gold-and that set off a new flurry of gold speculation on the London market. In June and again in July, he said that the Administration might be forced to consider putting controls on wages...