Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sorensen. But some liberal Democrats were scarcely less vehement in their opposition. One source of doubt was the fact that Sorensen had registered for the draft as a conscientious objector. Led by Hawaii's Inouye, a much-decorated World War II veteran who lost his right arm in combat, the Senators wondered whether Sorensen would be able to approve agency operations that might endanger life. Sorensen also is a fierce Kennedy loyalist who still wears his PT-109 tie clasp. After the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, he was summoned to help draft the statement that tried to exonerate Ted Kennedy...
...most questionable manner in which the Administration has traditionally managed to impose its bureaucratic wet-dreams upon the lives of those most affected by its decisions. An encouraging sign is that concerned and enraged students are organizing, under the name of Committee for a Democratic University (C.D.U.), to combat, not merely this proposal, but the reality of ceaseless Administration encroachment upon the rights and lives of students and workers at this University...
...instincts are for cooperation, not combat. As provost at Yale during the depths of the recession, Cooper had to carry out deep spending cuts, including a 20% slash in the faculty budget. Yet his even, unemotional, aboveboard handling of the problems won him a standing ovation from the faculty when his term expired. "He can turn people down without offending them," says William Brainard, a fellow economics professor. "He can accept criticism because little ego is involved in anything he does...
...Sydney experience gave Murdoch a taste for combat ?and a lot of cash. By 1968 his holdings included newspapers, magazines and broadcasting stations worth an estimated $50 million. He decided it was time to invade London. For $20 million he outbid British Book Publisher Robert Maxwell to win a controlling interest in News of the World, a Sunday scandal sheet (circ. 6 million). A year later, he bought the ailing daily Sun (circ. 950,000) for the bargain-basement price of $500,000. The Sun was a paper aimed at high-minded Labor Party supporters then, but Murdoch imported...
...COMBAT. Though they have traditionally been popular in Hollywood, war movies were eclipsed for a decade or more by the divisive reality of the war in Viet Nam, seen live and in color every night on the evening news. Now, with the fall of Saigon a receding memory, war films are staging their own kind of blitzkrieg. Toral Tora! Tora!, the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly ruined 20th Century-Fox when it was released in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War. Midway, on the other hand, which took unused footage from Tora...