Word: compliantly
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...after the sudden death of her father's successor as Prime Minister, Lai Bahadur Shastri. In choosing Mrs. Gandhi, who had served briefly as Minister of Information and Broadcasting under Shastri, the ruling bosses of the Congress Party apparently hoped to acquire a politically popular but compliant Prime Minister...
...public good. We have also modernized these ancient forms with the addition of electrical and electronic gadgetry, stereophonic sounds to amplify the terror, and low sound waves to give sensations of an earthquake... In this way we can transform a bold and fearless critic into a willing and compliant sycophant...
...loyal opposition to ideologically extreme Third World positions. "It is time we grew out of our initial-not a little condescending-supersen-sitivity about the feelings of new nations," wrote Moynihan, urging the U.S. to treat Third World nations "as equals" and to end its "extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy toward them. Doubtless bearing that sharply worded article in mind, one Latin American diplomat at the U.N. last week called Moynihan's impending appointment "an American declaration of war on the Third World." While Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger certainly have nothing so drastic in mind, Moynihan...
...urges Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who returned recently to Harvard after two years as U.S. Ambassador to India. In the March issue of Commentary, he calls on the U.S. to adopt a tougher stance toward the Third World. He excoriates Americans for an "extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy that tries-but fails-to appease the developing nations by remaining silent when Third World leaders blame the West for famine and poverty...
...fertilizers, drugs, chemicals, synthetic textiles and thousands of other products?the same substance that until recently was taken for granted as a seemingly inexhaustible and obedient treasure. Few noted the considerable historic irony that the world's most advanced civilizations depended for this treasure on countries generally considered weak, compliant and disunited. Now all that has changed, and the result has been a major economic and political dislocation throughout the world...