Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coexistence, both containment and an effort to relax tensions." Yet an America weakened by Watergate found this balancing act all but impossible to maintain. Finally, TIME presents some of Kissinger's observations on politics, bureaucracy and diplomacy. ("Civil wars," he writes, "almost without exception end in victory or defeat, never in coalition governments-the favorite American recipe...
...theological approaches to foreign policy. The "psychiatrists" saw in SALT a major step toward relaxing of tension and a world from which the specter of nuclear war was being lifted. To the "theologians," anything the Kremlin was willing to sign could not be in our interests. They sought to defeat SALT because they objected not to its terms but to its principle...
...period just after any diplomatic victory is frequently the most precarious. The victor is tempted to turn the screw one time too many; the loser, rubbed raw by the humiliation of his defeat, may be so eager to recoup that he suddenly abandons rational calculation...
...premises of the democratic process is that the loser accepts his defeat and in return is given an opportunity to win on another occasion. It depends on a moderate center whose evolution is almost inevitably thwarted in a developing country when a totalitarian element succeeds in organizing a guerrilla war. This impels the government into acts of repression, starting a vicious circle that traps both government and opponents and destroys whatever moderate center exists-fulfilling the central purpose of the insurgency. Moreover, the victims of terrorist attacks are almost invariably the ablest and most dedicated officials, leaving in place...
...when die-hard opponents protested in court. Harvard lawyers emphasized the cost of further delays for the University. After years of defeat at the hands of powerless but impassioned citizens. Harvard got what it wanted by using the prestige of its president and the bizarre argument that the University should not have to suffer further financial strain from MATEP...