Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...China's "Great Wall mentality": its obsessive fear of encroachments, real or imagined, against its borders. This siege mentality compelled China to enter the Korean War. It has contributed to periodic flare-ups between Chinese and Soviet troops along the Ussuri and Amur rivers. It may also have been behind China's attack against India in 1962. That assault, in which the Chinese penetrated up to 100 miles inside Indian territory on a broad front but withdrew benignly one month later, was regarded by some as a possible blueprint precedent for the current punitive action...
...Vietnamese leaders regard themselves as messianic representatives of the purest revolutionary movement in the world. They are affected, if you will, by an arrogance of power." Combined with the arrogance is the urging of Moscow, which moved into the power vacuum left behind by the U.S. retreat. There is some small justification for the argument that the U.S. may have driven Viet Nam into the Soviet embrace last summer when it spurned Hanoi's modest attempts at reconciliation...
Ambassador Andrew Young called the Southeast Asia situation "dangerous" and urged the combatants "to move the dispute to the negotiating table." Unaligned nations seemed to be lining up behind the proposed U.S. resolution, while China and the Soviet Union offered diametrically opposed resolutions, one condemning the aggression by Viet Nam, the other condemning aggression by China. On Saturday, in protest against the council's decision to give the floor to the representative of Pol Pot's defeated regime in Cambodia, Soviet Delegate Mikhail Kharlamov stalked out. He was followed moments later by the Czechoslovak delegation. Kharlamov was careful to leave...
...behind these symptoms of distaste for children, many complicated mechanisms of change are working. It can be both inadequate and misleading to argue that the nation's adults have become less hospitable to children. In their history, Americans have passed through periods of appalling cruelty and stupidity toward children. To the early Calvinists, a child was a lump of pure depravity. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was against the law for children to play. Things were not much better after behavioral psychologists undertook to dictate the treatment of children. Dr. J.B. Watson, an earlier generation's Dr. Spock...
...fewer rental apartments are being built than in the mid-1970s. Rising costs of construction and of operating existing rental units have squeezed landlords. In Chicago, for instance, utility and fuel bills have been rising faster than the Consumer Price Index, while rents have lagged behind it. Says John Pfister, vice president of Chicago Title & Trust, a mortgage broker: "Most renters are getting a bargain. It is the landlords who are behind the eightball." The owner of an apartment building who converts it to a condominium or cooperative can reap a profit of 20%-and often much more...