Word: evenhandedness
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After World War II, Reagan evolved into a conservative. By his own account, the change was triggered by his wartime contacts with self-serving Government bureaucrats and the postwar activities of Communists and fellow travelers in Hollywood. Elected in 1947 to the first of six terms as president of the...
By evenhanded contrast, the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh was brainy, an amateur mathematician, a superior gamesman especially addicted to cricket and golf. A.A. Milne had been an editor of Punch, a master of whimsy and light verse. The Pooh books are for grownups as well as children, and he...
The notable upsurge of visits to the U.S. by dignitaries from the Jewish state was unmistakably a response to the breakdown last March of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's Middle East shuttle. Although publicly evenhanded, the Secretary and President Ford had allowed that they felt Israeli intransigence was...
In the U.S., too, reaction was restrained. Kissinger received a grateful, even enthusiastic reception from congressional leaders when he briefed them at the White House. Later, after Kissinger appeared at a closed hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Jacob Javits said that he was "enormously encouraged" by Kissinger...
Some readers might wish that such a belt could be created-but in fact multinationals are not all that powerful. Far from being monolithic, for example, they compete vigorously, not only against smaller national firms but against one another. Barnet and Müller further charge that the multinationals have...