Word: according
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets, moreover, are inclined to accord greater respect to information that has been acquired deviously?even if it is as accessible as a Sears, Roebuck catalogue. In The First Circle, Novelist Solzhenitsyn scathingly described a prison research institute run by Soviet intelligence where American magazines that were sold to anyone in the U.S. "were here numbered, bound with string, classified and sealed up in fireproof safes, out of reach of American spies." The result, for the CIA as well as the KGB, is an astonishing amount of make-work and the accumulation of vast amounts of material that simply cannot...
Clark traced the beginning of Iconophobia to the second commandment prohibiting the creation of graven images. "People have continued to make images of living things in accord with the human instinct," Clark noted...
...bloodiest and potentially the most dangerous of the world's atavistic conflicts. Moscow hailed its 20-year treaty of non-aggression and mutual cooperation with New Delhi as a move designed to forestall total warfare between India and Pakistan. It probably is that in part, but the accord, by apparently ending India's nonalignment, also promises important benefits for the Soviet Union. It gives the Russians influence and status on the Indian subcontinent, perhaps including ports of call and bunkering facilities for the Soviet Union's growing Indian Ocean fleet. Most important, the treaty was a countermeasure...
While the top negotiators sought accord on a national contract, lower-level company men and local union chiefs met amid relative harmony in as many as 26 hotel rooms to resolve, about 15,000 local issues. Discussions involved items as diverse as the quality of toilet paper in plant lavatories, layoff procedures and safety precautions. At U.S. Steel's Gary plant, for example, workers wanted the water for their showers pumped from city reservoirs instead of from Lake Michigan. "Christ," said one delegate, "now you smell worse after taking a shower than you did before...
...toward Washington]: There are no straight roads in the world. We must be prepared to follow twists and turns and not try to get things on the cheap. It must not be imagined that one fine morning all the reactionaries will go down on their knees of their own accord. How to give "tit-for-tat" depends upon the situation. Sometimes, not going to negotiations is tit-for-tat, and sometimes, going to negotiations is also tit-for-tat. We were right not to go before and also right to go this time...