Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulties of America's changing China policy must be placed within a context of past policy toward the People's Republic. America's unstated goal has been to strangle Mao's revolution through a complex strategy of diplomatic isolation, economic boycott, and, most crucially, military and political encirclement...
...shall assume therefore that such economic development as can occur, must occur in the context of continued mobilization. A "post-war period" in the sense of full demobilization seems too remote to provide a realistic basis for planning. Clearly the need to maintain large military forces will have a profound bearing on the external resources required by Vietnam. Military equipment will be provided directly by the United States as military assistance. This is what has been done hitherto and what is still done in Korea and Taiwan. It is also the way North Vietnam is supplied by China and Russia...
...this context a successful development policy can consist as much in refraining from doing the wrong things as in doing the right ones. It must avoid the restrictions and licensing arrangements that have hampered development and have bred corruption in the past. It must resist domestic pressures to set up high cost import substitution industries. It must resist the pressure of labor to establish real wages that are so high that the country cannot take advantage of its plentiful labor supply...
...element of revenge will dominate Saturday's context. The Crimson was robbed of its 864th consecutive 23-2 victory last fall when the Spectator refused to play on Rosh Hoshannah and forfeited...
...hosts some satisfaction by seeming to dismiss "the doctrine of limited sovereignty" as a "fabrication" by the West and pledging his own support of the old declarations. However, Brezhnev's assurances were semantically slippery. He said that the Belgrade and Moscow declarations had to be understood in the context of "contemporary conditions"-which could mean anything...