Word: brinkmanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actually altered policy. The Administration's policymakers recognize the danger that any shift may be too slow and too gradual to head off a recession, but they seem prepared to take the risk in order to break inflationary psychology. They feel that they are practicing a form of brinkmanship...
...changing our total environment." Nonetheless, aside from the majestic scale, the frequent emptiness and the su-persimple icons of the past three decades, there is a lesson to be learned from the Met's show. It is that American artists have persistently practiced a kind of aesthetic brinkmanship in taking an idea to its logical, if sometimes totally irrational conclusion. As a result, their art achieved more than occasional grandeur. It was exciting even when it failed, providing a tradition that invites any young artist to try absolutely anything. Whether that is a good thing will not be clear...
...plans of last year's Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Intelligence strategists, Tully asserts, then imaginatively suggested making the plans public in an effort to force a Russian change of heart. As Tully tells it, Washington overruled the idea on grounds that the U.S. could not afford such dangerous brinkmanship during the Viet...
...Brinkmanship. Although the Senate vote promised that the 10% surtax will continue to take some fuel out of the country's overheated economy, the compromise can hardly be considered a victory for the Administration. The extension will bring in $5.6 billion. The House-approved Administration bill, which would continue the levy at 5% for an additional six months starting Jan. 1, would bring in $7.6 billion. Still, the Administration seemed content with two-thirds of a loaf. It came perilously close to getting nothing...
...reason for the Administration's near loss was its own legislative brinkmanship. Vice President Spiro Agnew rejected Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's argument that the Democratic offer of a five-month extension was the best the Administration was likely to get. Agnew telephoned President Nixon in Thailand, won his approval for an attempt to force a vote on the surtax. Agnew then threw down the challenge to the Democrats and demanded that Congress pass nothing less than a full year's extension...