Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, supporting the center would be the most intelligent policy option from this country's perspective. And it would just happen to be the most moral course we can adopt as well. So morality and foreign policy can coexist--if not always, at least sometimes. But as evidenced by Reagan's latest blunder, the policymakers in Washington don't see the light. Instead, they are leading us down a familiar path, one already followed in El Salvador and Nicaragua...
...ONLY SANE POLICY this country can adopt is one that promotes the power of the Soviet civilian government at the expense of the military. Increased defense spending, the MX missile system, rhetorical duels and the like will serve solely to give the generals a boost. Detente--which didn't work simply because it was never really tried--is the solution. Increased economic, scientific, cultural and educational exchange, all mutually beneficial propositions, certainly won't make the current Soviet-American relationship worse. And these policies might just help any moderates that exist within the Soviet power structure to assert themselves...
...press briefing last week, McNamara said the U.S. should adopt a doctrine of "no first use until." Until what? Said he: "Until we know exactly what our opponent intended to do, at what level the order to use nuclear weapons originated on his side, and whether there is any chance that the conflict might still be confined without our resorting to nuclear retaliation." McNamara also recommended a major buildup of NATO'S conventional defenses to raise the "threshold" at which a conflict would "go nuclear"; the creation of a "nuclear-free zone" on either side of the Iron Curtain...
...major schools--not just Harvard or the Ivy League--would have to adopt the policy, or many potential recruits might attend other well-respected academic institutions, such as Duke and Stanford, where they could play for four years, McLaughlin added...
...finds daily columns like "Offbeat USA," which promises to give the "human side of the news." On August 30, "Offbeat" offered these "human" stories: "Iowa man munches 22 hot dogs in 2 hours" and "100 frogs are in woman's menagerie." And on September 6: "Residents are asked to adopt a pothole." Stories like these make USA Today the Muzak of print journalism. They won't challenge you, or make you think, but they'll pass the time in an elevator...