Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable aspect of the shift was that Romney managed it merely by changing emphasis rather than by overt self-contradiction. In his Hartford speech four months ago, he emphasized points of agreement with the Administration, including his willingness to have the U.S. "use military force as necessary." As to domestic politicking, he observed then: "It is not a test of wills to see which party will be the peace party, which candidate will be hawk or dove." The performance earned him a public thank you from the White House...
Dialogue between serious men about serious things was for Father Murray the sine qua non of civilized society. The end in view was not agreement but the kind of understanding that honest disagreement presupposes. "Disagreement," he would often say, "is not an easy thing to reach." This, he felt, was society's protection against the confusion spread by the barbarian perpetually at the gates...
...adopt a code of "emergency procedure" for riots. There had been too much concentration, he wrote, on "sensational aspects and appeals to riot by extremists." Denying that his network had overplayed the extremists, CBS President Frank Stanton flatly turned down any code. It would amount to "censorship by voluntary agreement," he said. "We are not going to make subjective value judgments that the American people are capable of hearing and evaluating some spokesmen for some points of view and that others are unsafe or too dangerous for them to hear...
...Castro Cuba, a onetime hotel workers organizer who as Labor Minister in the late '40s swept the nation's unions clean of Communists, in 1951 helped the A.F.L.-C.I.O. found the pro-Western ORIT (Organization Regional Inter Americana de Trabaja-dores), two years later spearheaded a novel agreement by which his union bankrolled the building of the Havana Hilton Hotel, was jailed by Castro in 1959; of unknown causes (Castro's radio merely said "suddenly"); in La Cabana prison, Havana...
...other agreement reached in the Kennedy Round that depends upon Congressional action is the new grain deal which guarantees higher minimum wheat trading prices. The arrangement also committed participating countries to contribute 4.5 million tons of grain to a food aid program for less developed countries. Under this plan, the U.S. would supply 42 per cent of the total or maybe much more if the other countries bought their contributing share from Uncle Sam. American groups have complained mildly over the lack of significant accomplishments in agriculture, especially the U.S. failure to obtain a satisfactory guaranteed access to a certain...