Word: approachers
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President Carter's policy pf sharply attacking human rights violations in the Soviet Union gained headlines, but did nothing to change the Kremlin's stamp-it-out approach to political dissent. In a thoughtful article published in a special February issue of Trialogue, the bulletin of the Trilateral Commission, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and leader of his country's beleaguered dissident movement, offers Carter some advice on how to persuade Moscow's leaders to improve their human rights record without damaging detente. Excerpts...
...benefits far outweigh the costs. Several economists suggest that the Government put up matching funds to spur university research programs into ways to improve productivity of service industries?dry cleaners and restaurants, for example?in which most companies are too small to undertake any significant R. and D. That approach has enormously increased the productivity of farming...
...screen seemed inevitable. After all, Lee's comics themselves used cinematic techniques like closeups, fadeouts and establishing shots. Says Marvel Editor Roy Thomas: "Unlike most comic artists, Marvel's illustrators always drew their pictures first-before the writers put in dialogue. It was a very cinematic approach." Italian Film Director Federico Fellini is a fan. He once paid a visit to Marvel's New York office and pronounced that "Lee added his own kind of ironic parody to comics...
...ideas and give them a more complex grounding in the physically observed universe. The theory of the Big Bang is surely not the last idea of creation that will be conceived; it does suggest that there remain immense territories of mystery that both the theologian and the scientist should approach with becoming...
...said yesterday that "all constituencies" of the University should assist in designing a set of criteria for potential donors. Dayton said that a set of guidelines would both have to "incorporate the fundamental principles of the University, such as commitment to human rights and racial equality, and frame an approach to fundraising that offers clarity and security to potential donors...