Word: basic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospect of improved relations with the Soviet Union, a goal that seemed within reach in the mid '60s, has been set back by the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. As a new Administration prepares to take power, Americans are questioning for the first time in a generation their basic role in the world community. Though the signs of plenty abound throughout the Western world, the chronic international money crisis threatens to produce political as well as fiscal instability for millions (see THE WORLD...
...tools of his trade, including hol-lowed-out cuff links and other secret-message containers, a code book, a coded telegram, microfilm equipment and maps of U.S. defense areas. "It's incredible," Abel's defense attorney James B. Donovan told him, "you violated most of the basic rules of espionage with all that paraphernalia lying around...
...always present. In football, sooner or later, everyone gets hurt-and more often than not, he gets hurt in the knee. Obviously, the football player's knee is crucial. It must function perfectly to permit all the feinting, cutting, spinning, twisting, blocking, running and tackling that are the basic elements of his increasingly violent trade...
...expresses its will to the COH in several ways. First, through the several administrators who sit on the Committee itself. The second, more subtle, way is through the experience of the Masters themselves; they know the fact of life that the administration has control over any decision which involves basic policy...
...even if this year's budget doesn't end with a gigantic $2.4 million deficit that Ford predicted last month, it seems sure that the 1968-69 budget will have one of the biggest deficits in history. The basic reasons are simple enough: income is down and expenses are up. The rise in expenses surprised nobody, but the extent of their increase and the simultaneous drop in income make this year's trend unusual and disturbing...