Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South were well executed and successful-but they were also their best effort. The sapper units by anyone's estimate suffered horribly. These units are not, as was inferred by many, inexhaustible, nor are they mere country folk. These were the invaluable, irreplaceable, Hanoi-trained hard-core V.C., Directorate members themselves possibly, and the devout cadre-the very life and stimulus of the N.L.F. movement who have been the motivating spirit of things for years, if not decades. They could, of course, do it again, but certainly not with anywhere near the same quality and intensity...
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Whether Galbraith's program can be considered superb?or even modestly right?is questioned by defenders of U.S. policy. It is hard to believe, for example, that abandoning most of the countryside to the Communists?the very core of Galbraith's plan?would not embolden and stiffen them rather than give them greater reason to come to the conference table. Secure in the countryside and immune from interdiction by air, they could husband their forces and then assault the allied-held cities with far greater strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that...
Other departments plan to allow a limited number of pass-fail courses for concentration (Economics--two, History and Lit--four), often with the stipulation that core courses in the field must be taken with a grade. At the extreme of liberality are History of Science, Astronomy, and German, which allow concentrators to use their pass-fail option entirely for satisfying concentration requirements...
...League is to be patterned after the one functioning at the University of California at Berkeley. "I will be in contact with the Berkeley chapter, and hope to present a unified program at the next meeting later this month," CSFL's founder said. "We have a genuinely interested core of individuals, he added, "and I hope we will be able to attract others, specifically girls, in the near future...