Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than Pollyanna. Rostow is distrusted by many for his hawkish attitudes and derided even within the Administration as an expounder of outspoken and endless optimism to a President who craves good news. Rostow does see through rather rosy lenses. He has said: "We're closer to an era of real global peace than any time since 1914." On Face the Nation, he said bluntly of the Communist campaign in South Viet Nam: "They have been tactically defeated." Having once referred to John Kennedy's success in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as "the Gettysburg of global civil...
...house in order before it could effectively deal with a challenger from without." Quester didn't think it had anything to do with U.S. domestic politics, because if Johnson had really wanted to capitalize on the move, he would have waited until the elections were closer...
...years as Foreign Minister, Bhutto had enthusiastically engineered Pakistan's "Red shift"-away from the West toward closer ties with Communist China. Involved was a balancing act that Ayub undoubtedly initiated himself to obtain arms for his quarrel with India, but the vitriolic Bhutto often seemed more martial than his field marshal. He hobnobbed with the lately ousted pro-Chinese Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio, openly disavowed Ayub's agreement in Tashkent to end the Indian war, rekindled old Indian hatreds by crudely referring to his neighbors as "Indian dogs," once threatened to pull Pakistan...
...being too negative. He was unafraid to prophesy: he once predicted that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which we of the West have conceived;" long before the Sino-Soviet split, he argued that history was pushing the U.S. and Russia closer together...
...Bank, second largest in the nation, lifted its rates on auto and some other consumer loans. The charge on auto loans went up from 4¼% to 5¼%, but because the true size of the loan declines as the borrower pays off in installments, the actual interest is closer to 10½%. Some bankers have cut their customary kickbacks to auto dealers who steer loan customers to them from 1% to ½% of the to tal loan...