Word: basic
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...idea of continuing them accords with the approach Kissinger outlined just before Nixon appointed him: Washington and Hanoi should settle whatever issues they can between them, while leaving as many internal Vietnamese questions as possible to the Vietnamese themselves. Like Nixon, Kissinger has not attacked the basic U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, though he has been critical of Lyndon Johnson's "ad hoc decisions made under pressure." While working for Rockefeller, Kissinger framed a plan for mutual U.S.-North Vietnamese military withdrawal, leading eventually to a political settlement...
They were all reactionaries who stood in the way of republicanism, to be sure, but Metternich and Castlereagh particularly understood the need for "legitimate" political structures, for satisfying national (if not popular) aspirations, for balancing the powers of their day. Says Kissinger: "An international order, the basic arrangements of which are accepted by all the major powers, may be called 'legitimate.' " The world conceived in the Congress of Vienna ultimately crumbled, but only after a century of relative peace. The Germany constructed by Bismarck blundered into a fate of blood and new division, but only after the Iron Chancellor lost...
Bowles said that the purpose of the survey was to explain basic statistical concepts and to provide an indication about the class structure of universities, a topic which will be discussed later in the term...
...indication of the exceptional good sense of Harvard men and women. But who can tell? Nevertheless, looking back on the past months, I can affirm in making another report, as my predecessors have done many times before, despite an increase in anxiety and unease, through another year the multiform basic work of the University went strongly ahead. Also, as is characteristic of any lively institution, questioning and re-examination of objectives and procedures went on, accelerated by events within and without the University...
...embark upon graduate and graduate-professional studies. Last summer a parallel Faculty Audit Program brought 25 teachers from predominantly Negro institutions here for summer study and observation. But the heightened interest shown throughout the University last year in attracting more disadvantaged students was sufficiently great to constitute virtually a basic change...