Word: counterweights
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...been drawn up into a specific report or amendment, its implications are disturbingly clear. If it were adopted, Harvard would be taking a long step backwards to the days before the publication of the monumental "Redbook," General Education for a Free Society, when the College's counterweight to departmental education was a similar system of distribution requirements...
...eschews logic and statistics to come right to the point. Even when the point is a tired one, the freshness of TRB's verbal stream brings new clarity to the matter by rinsing away all the moss and scum of confusion: "Maybe it's unfortunate, but about the only counterweight the little man has to Big Business is Big Government; the record of the century is that business has grown big first, with government limping along behind...
...Common Market. Adenauer, who is anxious to achieve almost any form of political union before he steps down, is now willing to go along with De Gaulle's concept. Belgium and The Netherlands prefer a far tighter, supranational federation, but failing that, they want Britain in as a counterweight to France and Germany. Says Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak: "England is a great political stabilizing element, our necessary intermediary with...
...founding fathers, deeply distrusts De Gaulle's obstructionist foreign policy, fears that a Europe of Fatherlands would give short shrift to smaller nations. In fact, the Benelux nations are only waging a delaying action until Britain joins the Common Market. Confident that the British will prove a powerful counterweight to France and a staunchly pro-NATO voice in its councils, they will be less fearful of confederation as a halfway house to their ultimate ideal of supranational European union. Britain's Lord Privy Seal. Edward Heath, last week resoundingly reaffirmed the primary concern of his government...
...hundreds from Cairo, where many of them picked up an affection for socialism. Some of them go into the army, others into the civil service. Egyptian teachers and technicians in Saudi Arabia total 50,000, and Radio Cairo is the average Saudi's favorite station. As a counterweight, the government has recently been encouraging a native Saudi nationalism. Two months ago, Saud told the U.S. that it would have to get out of its big Dhahran airbase when the lease ran out in 1962. Recently, all non-Saudi taxi drivers lost their licenses, and Bedouins, according to one observer...