Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus it was understandable, perhaps even inevitable, that Soviet control over Eastern Europe would erode and its territorial approach to security be exposed as obsolete in a world of nuclear missiles. Yet even years from now, when the breathtaking events of 1989 are assessed, hindsight is unlikely to dilute the amazement of the moment. For suddenly, amid a barrage of headlines that a year ago would have seemed unimaginable, the architecture of Europe is being redrawn and the structure of international relations transformed by Mikhail Gorbachev's redefinition of Soviet security...
...given the sweeping transformations under way, these measures seem limp. Such a step-by-step approach would be, at best, yet another example of the -- dare one say timid? -- incrementalism on arms control and trade that has marked Soviet-American relations for four decades. As Bush himself says, the opportunity is historic. The idea that the Warsaw Pact would launch a land invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really make...
...with their recent attempts to gain the attention of Robert G. Stone '45, a member of the Pittston Board of Directors and the Harvard Corporation. So when the protested outside a Corporation meeting at 17 Quincy St. this Monday, for the third time this fall, they tried a new approach. They gave him a present--a symbolic bag of coal--to remind him that he has been "a very...
...need for funds has escalated to thepoint where such an approach is almost essential,according to Harvard fundraisers...
Monrad says he takes a similar approach. "Ifeel that Harvard's the leader--Harvard sets thestandard for education in the world," he says...