Word: distinct
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...Away Absolutes. In general, Kennan is brilliant in his criticism of the unconditional surrender viewpoint, the belief in summit conferences, and similar fetishes of U.S. policy. He is considerably less convincing in his case for the relatively "moderate" Russian line, and there seems to be a distinct danger that belief in such moderation could become the kind of inflexible tenet that Kennan himself considers so dangerous. The sum of his advice to the U.S. is to keep talking to the Russians while watching and waiting -but he never suggests what to watch and to wait for. He merely pleads over...
Postulate 1: There exists a distinct, if non-measurable difference between the intellectual quality of the Harvard community and that of anyplace else...
Essentially, the book is written to convince traditionally defense-minded people that arms control is a necessity in the nuclear age, that military strategy alone is no longer the only requirement for national defense. Arms control, as Schelling and Halperin explain it, is not something distinct or self-contained, not some item we inaugurate after negotiating an international agreement. Rather, they contend, arms control is an integral part of national security. Even at this moment, for example, we and the Russians refrain from certain actions, e.g. political assassinations, because abstention serves both blocs beneficially. Thus, we already have some arms...
...descent, Shepard reported that his periscope had retracted. As the capsule plunged downward into the atmosphere, and the Gs of deceleration climbed toward a punishing 10, the astronaut's voice grew gruff as he strained to make his breath behave. Then the capsule slowed; his words were distinct again...
...equivalent of saying that the whole Study needs revision. Toynbee even finds it now necessary to revise his table of civilizations, one of the key points of his huge labor, and at one point he blandly confesses that "I now have to abandon my previous construction of three distinct civilizations." In the same way he acknowledges that his list of "arrested civilizations" is "capricious." Moreover, he tacitly agrees that he forced facts into theories when he writes: "I have also neglected to try other keys where the Hellenic key has not fitted the lock. These were faults, I confess...