Word: counterweights
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...heads the House Intelligence Committee, say they worry about putting a military man in charge of the CIA when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been expanding an empire that already absorbs about 80% of the U.S. intelligence budget. In that view, the CIA needs to remain an independent counterweight to the Pentagon, another set of eyes, ears and instincts, not become a subsidiary of it. But Hayden has hardly been acting like a covert Rumsfeld agent. In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in August 2004, he strongly supported the plan to create the DNI role, over Rumsfeld...
...larger sense of belonging...we also have identities as world citizens,” he said. The topic of China also surfaced throughout the evening’s discussion. “There are some in India who believe that the US is building up India as a counterweight to China,” said Bose, but he said India did not want to be cast into that role. Summers said that although China is currently experiencing greater growth, India has higher prospects for education than any other country. “It is both the glory and the vice...
...cautious. China cannot risk its trade surplus with the U.S., and Washington must speak softly lest Beijing dump its vast reserves on the market, driving down the value of the dollar. The U.S. needs China to constrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, and China needs the U.S. as a counterweight against a resurgent Russia...
...weakness of the Core Curriculum as it exists today is that it provides too weak a counterweight to the specializing tendencies of the concentrations,” the report says...
...without dedicated meeting spaces, students say, female-centered student groups have been forced to operate from the margins of College life. As long as Harvard Square’s male-only final clubs continue to own their exclusive mansions, these students see a pressing need for a physical counterweight. On a campus where historic buildings serve as visible reminders of centuries of male power, they are asking for one space that is explicitly oriented towards the women of Harvard’s present and future...