Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mosley is saying "I told you so," he has some justification. Though it is easy to despise his tactics, Skidelsky argues that Mosley has usually had a realistic grip on trends in economics and history. Earlier than most, he understood the breakdown of 19th century imperialistic capitalism and the ways in which investments flowed toward cheap labor and eliminated jobs at home. As a Member of Parliament in the '20s, he attempted to introduce Keynesian theories into monetary planning. His social proposals in the '30s were not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's. Historian A.J.P. Taylor has gone...
...failed when Egypt ruled out a declaration of non-belligerency toward Israel. Kissinger, not surprisingly, agreed with Egypt that non-belligerency was too much to ask in return for abandoning key defensive fortifications, the Mitla and Gidi passes, and since has blamed Israel, both privately and publicly, for the breakdown of the talks...
Continued Dispute. Almost inevitably, the debacle in Southeast Asia was seen in the context of other recent U.S. foreign policy setbacks: the breakdown of Kissinger's step-by-step Middle East diplomacy, Portugal's slide toward leftist rule and the continued dispute between NATO allies Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. The fear was not that Viet Nam had fatally sapped America's physical strength or irretrievably tarnished its moral authority but that the bitter experience of recent events might somehow have traumatized America's will. A front-page editorial in the Brit ish weekly Manchester Guardian...
...meeting was." Marglin explains. The rest of the faculty was incensed, and the controversy over radical economists took on a new bitterness. At the next executive meeting--when MacEwan was voted down--Marglin remembers. "I really feared that two people might have heart attacks. There was a total breakdown of their gentlemanly way of doing things...
...notable upsurge of visits to the U.S. by dignitaries from the Jewish state was unmistakably a response to the breakdown last March of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's Middle East shuttle. Although publicly evenhanded, the Secretary and President Ford had allowed that they felt Israeli intransigence was primarily responsible for the collapse of the talks. Thus it was no coincidence that so many Israeli VIPS were in the U.S. conveying the same basic message: that the onus for the failure belongs on Cairo and not Jerusalem...