Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tactics are not born of nostalgia; they fit his perception of the problem. "There's no such thing as the New South," he says bitterly. "There's more racism in Mississippi in 1978 than there was in 1972." But some blacks see Robinson's approach as self-defeating. When the Tupelo city government recently adopted a sweeping affirmative-action plan, Robinson issued a new list of demands...
Even the potentially divisive issue of national health insurance was defused. Senator Ted Kennedy has been forcefully advocating mandatory national health insurance since 1971. But he agreed to play down his opposition to Carter's less ambitious approach if the Administration would reaffirm its commitment to the 1976 party platform's broad goal of a "comprehensive national health insurance system with universal and mandatory coverage" at some unspecified date in the future. One of the dissident resolutions, however, called for immediate enactment of an insurance program. In an effort to blunt that resolution, representatives of Kennedy...
Still, the break between these two gifted public servants was baffling be cause they have much the same approach to world affairs. Unsentimental to the point of acidity, both appreciate the imperatives of power and have no illusions about their Communist opponents. Perhaps it was style as much as anything that separated them: the difference between a man whose words were always guarded and one whose words never were, between a man who practiced quiet diplomacy and one who sought public confrontation...
Reaction to Brustein's appointment ranged from high praise by President Bok and Overseers to uneasy acceptance by the board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC). Some HRDC members said Brustein's "professional approach" might discourage all but the most serious theater students from working at the Loeb...
...whole case-by-case approach is unrealistic. I said that it was impractical at last year's corporation hearing, and I believe the same thing now. This year's progress has not even met my meager expectations. Half of the committee has studied, though not evaluated according to plan, three corporations. That's as far as we have gotten. A unified treatment is necessary for this reason and others which I listed in Appendix C of the last ACSR report...