Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week before, the civil rights leader toured Israel, Jordan and Lebanon, where he had met with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. That was phase one of his self-appointed mission to promote U.S. and Israeli acceptance of the P.L.O. Phase two was a meeting in Cairo with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. During the session...
...both sides, the difficulty is resolving the problem without giving the impression of backing down. At the White House, President Carter told congressional leaders only that the negotiations over the 2,600 to 2,800 Soviet troops had reached a delicate phase during which major decisions would have to be made by both sides. An Administration official later said that the Kremlin would have to take steps "to relieve, to alter the situation in a way favorable to the U.S." Just what Carter is willing to accept as "favorable" was a tightly kept secret...
...FEAST YOUR EYES; but American readers, close yours. Strobe Talbott's Endgame, a chatty account of the second phase of the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT II), will bore all but eager Soviet intelligence agents and the hardiest of cocktail party devotees. And that's a shame because buried below all the gossip, Talbott offers some perceptive explanations of the nuances of superpower bargaining...
Rogers says the campaign's polarization of Stevens will not end when all the Stevens directors with financial and corporate ties are driven from the board. Rather, at that time the corporate campaign will "move into phase two and mobilize personal and institutional shareholder power against Stevens," Rogers says. Just like the Stevens directors, shareholders will feel the pressure of the corporate campaign. But first, Rogers says, "we've got to study who really owns the company...
...more than a decade Schlesinger was at the center of the nation's drama, court philosopher and iconoclast, a man with big-fisted ideas of leadership oddly matched with a Swiss-watch mind. He is out of phase, decompressing (sort of) as the political pace quickens. He was fired by one President, sensed the time to depart another. A rare repository of current history, Schlesinger is taking long looks at the world on these autumn days...