Word: crucial
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While U.S. strength cannot enforce a universal Pax Americana, however, the nation's muscle has done a reasonably effective job of protecting the balance in areas crucial to world stability, such as Western Europe and the Far East. For the time being, a strong military machine is essential?although not necessarily at its present size, or guided by its present axioms...
...hero," he says. "Wrong, and you are up on the Hill." Men like Betts and John Foster, the research chief for the Defense Department, suffer nightmares that the other side may achieve some technological breakthrough that will leave the U.S. far behind in some crucial area and thereby subject it to blackmail by an enemy with an unbeatable hand...
President Pusey's statement to the SFAC meeting of March 25 has confirmed the analysis of the opponents of ROTC on two crucial issues...
...better spirits, the six edged the University of Virginia, 5-4. Levin, Jarvis and Oxford won their matches quickly, and Washauer finally got the crucial fourth point winning, 7-5, in the third set. Levin and Jarvis won their doubles to clinch the victory. Terrell and Oxford again lost in the third, and Washauer and Neilson also played three sets before succumbing...
...President's meeting in California last week with Ellsworth Bunker, the ambassador to Saigon, and General Andrew Goodpaster, deputy chief of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, may be only one of a series of crucial meetings aimed at new moves toward peace (see THE WORLD). "This is like any other delicate operation," says a top Nixon aide. "The public doesn't have to know what the strategy is. The last Administration made the terrible mistake of announcing what it was going to do. Why should we tell the other side what our negotiating position...