Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public funds "in promoting artificial birth prevention for economically underdeveloped countries." The church leaders urged instead greater scientific efforts to feed and uplift backward peoples. U.S. Catholics, declared the bishops, "believe that the promotion of artificial birth prevention is a morally, humanly, psychologically and politically disastrous approach to the population problem." Catholics, they continued, "will not support any public assistance, either at home or abroad, to promote artificial birth prevention, abortion or sterilization whether through direct aid or by means of international organizations...
...heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said, has yet put her "young and dynamic" heart under contract...
...piece on the well-calculated emotionalism of a Bible-banging preacher could hardly be done better. And the reader feels sharply Katherine's humiliation and despair when her neurotically protective father insists on being her dancing partner at parties. For violence and despair, the Dunham family wars approach Eugene O'Neill's. When the last blow has been struck-backhanded, across the mouth-and Katherine has at last left home, it seems astonishing that she has somehow survived her long night's journey into...
...compromise. It does seem to me, however, that if we announce in advance of any negotiation or any crisis that compromise is an end in itself we will reward extreme positions. This point was really an elaboration of the previous one. It was a criticism of a formalistic approach to negotiations which confuses negotiating techniques with purpose. My argument was that we should stop using slogans like compromise, flexibility or rigidity and debate the substance of the program to which they refer...
...represents a victory for advocates of a continued high level of foreign aid over those in the administration who have been more concerned with cutting costs in an effort to approach a balanced budget...