Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, at least, the documents appeared to confirm the students' fears that Washington was secretly plotting to let the Shah gain sanctuary in the U.S. State Department officials insisted that the cables had been released out of context, and were only two of many informal messages about the problem of the Shah that went back and forth between the embassy and Washington. Last week the White House acknowledged that there had indeed been much correspondence mulling over U.S. policy toward the Shah's sanctuary problem. A top Administration official further conceded to TIME that "Henry Kissinger, [Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman...
Sarah C. Doering '49, assistant to the president for planning at Radcliffe, said in 1968 that, "It would be a mistake to only think in terms of the individual college Houses. They must be conceived in the context of the Quadrangle area, it's immediate environment, and the total University." Radcliffe should have listened to her. Most important of all, the college should now acknowledge that Radcliffe has closer ties to Harvard undergraduate life and should not draw lines based on where a student lives...
...ministry will wait for a few years for Horner who hopes to join the Peace Corps after graduation and go to a Spanish-speaking country, probably in Latin America. "I feel a real desire to break out of the cultural context in which I've lived for so many years," Horner says thoughtfully. "I want to learn about other ways of life and experience them rather than just reading about them." Horner discusses how his studies in psychology conflict with his plans to be a minister in a similar contemplative moment. "They do conflict with one another in some cases...
...scene has mom writhing about fully clothed, displaying to full advantage a mere pair of skinny legs. No sexual tension or even desire ever builds up between the two. The two moments of sexual activity occur for no apparent reason; Bertolucci never integrates this incest into the broader context of film. The only truly startling moment in the film occurs when Joey plunges a for into his arm. That's shocking. The single men who came with hats over their laps were sorely disappointed; Luna is not soft-core porn for the artsy...
During economic slowdowns trade restrictions are everybody's favorite panacea to unemployment induced by more efficient foreign competition. While the pressures of free trade displace only a relatively small segment of the domestic labor force, these unemployed are highly visible, and in the context of high unemployment, a democratic government is hard pressed to adopt short-term palliatives. Producers like protectionism because it is a form of government support which interferes least in their affairs. Workers in declining industries like it because it saves their jobs. The government likes it because it is a form of assistance that requires little...