Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Compromise. Instead of axing the corps, as the White House had feared, Mrs. Green overhauled it to satisfy both herself and the House Republican leadership. The Green version maintains the program's aims but transfers administrative responsibility from Washington to state and local agencies. This was the Republican approach to the larger $3.4 billion elementary-and secondary-school bill, a proposal that the Democrats had defeated in a spirited dispute. This time, however, the Democrats were willing to yield federal power because the alternative was no bill at all. In money terms, the compromise freed...
...approach of the June 30 fil- ing deadline for presidential candidates in South Viet Nam, the rivalry be tween Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky intensified. U.S. diplomats alerted Washington that trouble was imminent. Rumors of coup and counter-coup coursed through Saigon: Vietnamese marines loyal to Ky were said to be headed for the capital; 20 truckloads of pro-Thieu troops were reported en route to the city. Though the rumors proved false, the nation had good reason to be upset. A break between Ky and Thieu could have split the armed forces into...
...from a $100,000-a-year vice president to an operative with a mimeograph machine and a credit card. But certain trends stand out. The virtuoso has given way to committees, with a memo-writing style involving such terms as "idea transference," "posture of receptivity," and the "multiple-channel approach." Specialization is on the rise: there are firms for proxy fights, firms for staying out of trouble on civil rights, firms to get the New Rich into society, firms oriented toward culture or sports...
...could, I suppose, react to this doubling-in-brash approach as Doctor Johnson did to a woman's preaching and a dog's walking on his hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." The point, however, is that such theatrical vaunting should not be done at all; in fact, it should be categorically proscribed by international...
...community." To change the rules, Crooks maintains, would be "opening a can of worms. There's just no reason to get mixed up in it." Even taken at face value, that the Summer School simply finds it easier to say "no parietals" or "in by 1," the approach is not that of the Harvard that people go to in the winter...