Word: approachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow and Washington has been strained to the breaking point. He has warned President Carter that the dialogue between the superpowers is deteriorating into mutual recriminations. What the relationship needs now, Vance believes, is more cool-headed diplomacy and less scolding rhetoric. Brzezinski, by contrast, favors a more competitive approach. He feels that the Soviets are acting and talking tough and that Washington should respond in kind...
...making the few mental notes that he could-two dogs barking, a child crying upstairs, some cracks in a plaster wall he could see. Heavy chains were padlocked around his neck, and the temperature was kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have to draw a hood over his head and cough to indicate that he was wearing it. His food came from tin cans, which the kidnapers tossed into the backyard when he was finished...
Many lawyers may enjoy less prestige, less interesting work and only modestly robust pay scales in the future. Trends in specialization, prepaid group legal plans, storefront legal clinics and advertising may well make for greater competition, lower fees and more of a supermarket approach to the law. The days of the independent, prosperous general practitioner are numbered. For some time to come, however, the top half of the classes graduating from the best law schools (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Michigan and Berkeley) are likely to do very well indeed. These are the young lawyers who will be asked...
...beer, alas, all 95,000 bottles will go right down the drain once a panel of faculty and staff has rated their taste and bouquet. Along with such courses as "analysis of musts and wines" and "wine production," Davis offers a course on "sensory evaluation." But its strictly scientific approach sets it apart from the wine-appreciation courses that have germinated on some 300 U.S. campuses...
...retrospective approach alone, however, does not do justice to King's memory. He was a forward-looking man, a dreamer, more concerned with potential for change than the disappointments of the past. In that sense, the best possible commemoration would couple an appreciation of King and his contribution with an analysis of what we are doing to fulfill his ideals...