Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began. So what did the summit and the twelve minisummits that preceded it accomplish? Substantively, not much. The Administration's economic policy probably will continue to be the "oldtime religion" of budget cutting and tight money. Ford had proclaimed himself to be in search of new ideas to combat inflation; in fairness to him, hardly any were offered. Instead, the delegates to the summit and the preliminary meetings mostly repeated well-worn themes and biases. Ford had to listen to some sharply worded attacks on his advisers and numerous warnings that his policies risked deepening a potential recession without...
...campaign against Confucius and Lin Piao, which, according to People's Daily was "personally launched" by Mao Tse-tung, did more than just lower the status of the army. Although apparently intended by Mao to combat ideological backsliding, the campaign quickly became tangled in the question of succession. Chiang Ching and her radical cohorts, who had faded from view since their days of pre-eminence during the Cultural Revolution, seized on the campaign to enhance their own political positions. They used the confusing but time-honored Chinese tradition of attacking the living by drawing carefully worded analogies...
...City Council should empower a public citizens' investigative unit--whose members would be named by the Coalition to Combat Racism--to look into the practices of the Police Department. This Citizens' Investigative Unit would have full powers in order to make it effective and capable of delivering the kind of report and recommendations that will deal with the question of racism and brutality in the Cambridge Police Department...
Calvin Hicks is a member of the Coalition to Combat Racism, a faculty member of Staten Island Community College, and a Program Planner at the Institute of Learning and Teaching, University of Massachusetts at Boston...
...opposed to the proposals of the Coalition to Combat Racism...