Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score does not fully reflect Harvard's control of the meet, as the Crimson led, 39-4, at one point and opted not to run up the score by swimming its strongest lineup in the second half...
Dyson carries on a crusade against the English and then the American bureaucracy throughout the book. His preoccupation with this issue was born of his work as a researcher for the English government during World War II. His criticism extends to the American bungling of arms control. Dyson argues that the United States should have abandoned offensive-weapon research in favor of defensive-weapon research. He expresses admiration for Richard Nixon's unilateral decision that the United States should abandon the use of biological weapons...
...this time the network control couldn't reestablish itself. It may not have been the American Dream, but what I had seen was definitely the genuine article. When I left the car in the desert, the moving picture screen lost its hold over me. Even the sight of Reno couldn't stifle my lately restored ability to see what passes for the real world...
...assurances came after the Shah was admitted to the U.S. and the demonstrators started shouting in Tehran's streets. There was an encouraging precedent. Last February when anti-American protesters seized the embassy, Iran's government moved quickly and efficiently to bring them under control. But the U.S. should have been more aware of how frail the Bazargan government was. The Administration was simply too optimistic, and it did not have sound enough intelligence information...
...Harvard, settling down defensively and using aggressive forechecking to control play in the offensive zone, came up with goals from "old veterans" Mike Watson (a sophomore) and Tom Murray (a junior) and then exploded for four more in a final period that left Northeastern wishing it had never left the cobwebs of Boston Arena...