Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...larger context of the world, those same young people, themselves so well off, may also sense how precarious their situation could be historically. After all, we as a nation make up 5% of the population of the earth, yet we consume 40% of its raw materials, and we are its wealthiest nation...
...detached analysis that told Fogel and Engerman how many whippings constitute harsh treatment of slaves, or how much confidence slaveholders had that the system would endure. So long as a researcher confines himself to recompiling old records, his work can indeed be devoid of historical context and bias. But as soon as he compares his results to those of others, as soon as he draws any historical conclusions, he loses his claim to special objectivity and his work becomes another work of history, whether good...
...supporters of Israel to scoff. The thought of turning over territory to an organization which has dedicated itself to murdering Israeli civilians, without first requiring that that organization formally recognize Israel's right to exist would seem dangerous folly. But Hoffmann is suggesting such a development only in the context of a general settlement. In short, if Syria and Egypt recognize Israel, if the United States and the Soviet Union are joint guarantors of Israel's security, the PLO refusal to extend Israel recognition becomes irrelevant. Palestinian spokesmen themselves have acknowledged this point. In praising the Hoffmann plan earlier this...
...extending support to Hoffmann's plan in principle, one is not necessarily endorsing all of his conclusions. His direct implication that many who support Israel have used the Nazi holocaust as political blackmail is unfair. Those Israelis who speak of the Holocaust of European Jewry in the context of the current crisis, do so, for the most part, not to be awarded the moral right to do anything they please, but to remind the world that their fears are not without historical foundation, a reminder sorely needed...
...cannot launch an offensive in the South which we would not react to immediately and vigorously." At the time, Lam explained, "Haiphong harbor was mined, and you were bombing with your B-52s." He said that the term vigorously was, quite understandably, interpreted in that bristling military context...