Word: wider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zbigniew Brzezinski to outline the global problems and prospects for the coming year, and late in December Brzezinski provided him with a thick black dossier. Brzezinski declines to discuss the specifics of that report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework for wider global accommodation." This, along with European defense concerns, will presumably be one of the main topics when Carter meets late this week with his chief European allies-British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-on the Caribbean...
...letter, the congressmen-elect said they do not want to intrude on the business of the Harvard community, but added they believe they "have standing to comment on the wider policy implications of naming the library for Engelhard...
Many of the Rockefeller offerings are china, candlesticks and reproductions of other domestic artifacts, which hardly deserve all the indignation. But the issue is wider, and this cat, once out of the bag, will not depart. The catalogue of costly, inauthentic art looks like a portent of the future: the Clone Museum, successor to the Museum Without Walls. A new cultural industry is rising: the mass production of elaborate, high-priced copies of art objects. They are not to be confused with ordinary, reasonably priced reproductions, including posters, postcards and photos, which are not only defensible but useful...
...Sadat's bitterness at the Saudis for failing to support the Camp David accords. With Saudi help, Sadat believes, at least one or two other moderate Arab states could be enticed into joining or supporting the peace process, and that in turn could eventually lead to a wider peace. The Saudis answer that they have done the best they could to defend the Egyptians against attacks by the more radical Arab states. They consider the Egyptian press excesses to be gross ingratitude...
...this time. The text did not include a timetable for concluding negotiations for Palestinian autonomy in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank, and it was this timetable that lay at the heart of Sadat's proposals for "linkage" between a treaty and the pursuit of a wider peace in the Middle East. Nor did the document take into account Sadat's new suggestion that in devising the plan for Palestinian autonomy, the negotiators should concentrate first on Gaza, then turn later to the question of the West Bank...