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...with overriding U.S. security interests. Vance persuaded Marshall Shulman, Columbia Sovietologist, to switch from a part-time consulting job at the State Department to a full-time post as the Secretary's adviser on Soviet affairs. Not coincidentally, the medium-soft-line Shulman serves as a kind of academic counterweight to the NSC's Brzezinski...
McKie has divided loyalties as he is also the most feared agent of the universe's counterweight to the Gowachin order, the Bureau of Sabotage, a cross between the CIA and the Texas Rangers. McKie, in a previous book, gained the power to communicate with the Calibens who, in actuality, are the stars. His special Caliben protector is Fannie...
...brought the system's mediocrity to the forefront of people's minds. It will take years to change the system but at least now, there is some potential. David Smith said of years past. "The Mayor, [teachers'] union and corporate community might have stepped in and become a public counterweight to the school committee. None of them did." Because of Garrity's order, they, along with parents, local universities and several other organizations have finally become loyal dissidents...
...point she is trying to make. Letting the women speak for themselves is admirable; getting caught up in their personal lives to the extent that their stories obstruct analysis verges on bathos. Howe's descriptions come perilously close to true confessions--and this tendency becomes an overly heavy counterweight to abstract statistics. Her opening and closing chapters raise questions about the societal foundations underlying women's place in the labor fore, and the in-depth vignettes on each occupation bring up points of special concern to each realm of work. But the cinematic style--emotion-laden frames in sequence...
Evangelicals cut across racial and sectarian lines, dominating some bodies like the Southern Baptists and the Churches of Christ, acting as a counterweight in others, like the Methodists and Presbyterians. Southerners are the most churchgoing people in the nation, and from camp meeting through riverside baptisms to huge urban congregations, the tone and temper of Southern Protestantism is evangelical...