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...teaching at Harvard and serving as consultant to several Government agencies, including the National Security Council's Psychological Strategy Board. He was also writing, making major contributions to the literature of international relations, demonstrating ways in which the display of force could and should be used to avert international catastrophe...
...Communist automatons bent upon subverting liberty, and even if the American cause was initially just, the extent the killing, the mounds of the dead, showed that the U.S. government was pursuing a policy of moral obscenity. No political goals were worth such a toll in lives. Why fight to avert a bloodbath if you create one in the process...
...some hatred or hurt inside. He didn't swagger when he walked like the others, or hang about in packs looking for Action. At tournament dances he would stand quietly with his hands in his pockets and watch the band. He'd answer congratulations with gruff monosyllabics and then avert his eyes. But his growl wasn't hostile, neither was it shy. His slowness to make friends came out of something deeper. He acted like someone angry inside, all the time. You respected Stockton, you laughed with Connors...
...automatons bent upon subverting liberty, and even if the American cause was initially just, the extent of the killing, the mounds of the dead, showed that the U.S. government was pursuing a policy of moral obscenity. No political goals were worth such a toll in lives. Why fight to avert a bloodbath if you create one in the process...
...sell gold in the market, to each other, or to the IMF at any agreed price; 4) domestic policies or exchange rates, or both, should be adjusted whenever a country's foreign exchange reserves rise or fall substantially; 5) countries should harmonize interest rates in order to avert flows of short-term money seeking maximum earnings. Triffin also urged U.S. officials to "stop triggering bearish speculation in the dollar. They have done so repeatedly in the past by arguing for exchange-rate flexibility and hailing as a victory every upward valuation % of foreign currencies and every devaluation...