Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...36th President. Caro, like many Americans, balks at the idea that desirable policy can be effected through morally questionable means. Yet one lesson modern politics offers is that good causes--like rural electrification or civil rights for Blacks--frequently are not converted into government action until their proponents adopt the methods of compromise and mutual advantage that their opponents have used all along. Lyndon Johnson may have connived with George and Herman Brown to win Federal contracts and finance political campaigns, but the result of the half-legal dams built by Brown & Root was electric power and flood control...
...moderate if self-congratulatory in their defense of detente. Nixon only predictably lambasts the "superdoves" but also lashes out at the "superhawks," in a not-too-subtle Jab at the strident Reagan approach to dealing with the Soviets. A "hard-headed detente" is the best strategy the U.S. could adopt in this nuclear age, he creditably argues When Nixon sets aside ideology and self-interest partially (he can never do it fully), he does prove insightful and at times persuasive. Such glimpses may be one explanation for how a second-rate crook...
...first lecture, never attended section, and never so much as skimmed through any of the 14 required textbooks. On the day of the final, he walked into the exam-room, realized that the ensuring three hours were bound to be little better than a wretched farce, and decided to adopt the noblest course of action he could...
...dozen fresh ideas for doctoring the economy. He is sure to try a few of the still secret proposals. Indeed, in the White House there is the feeling that within the next couple of years the time will be right to reform health care and Social Security and to adopt a flat-rate income tax. There is even some muttering against the 20-year-old triad strategic-defense structure (bombers, land-based missiles, submarines). Reagan aides believe that in the future, high costs and new technology will induce the U.S. to concentrate more on submarines and to venture into space...
...material and psychological differences that separate them from Americans. And from the beginning, the interpretation of these differences has ranged from blind admiration to an equally blind repulsion. During the 19th century, Mexican liberals saw American democracy, not without reason, as the archetype of modernity. This led them to adopt the American political system. Their attempt failed, in part, because Mexico for three centuries had been a Roman Catholic monarchy; neither its people nor its leaders had experienced the great spiritual, political and economic revolution with which modernity began. We wanted to leap from a traditional society to a modern...