Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscure and highly disturbing. Foreign Service officers wonder whether the Board is accusing Vincent of actively pursuing a contradictory policy, or whether "declared and established policy" means a party line with which private disagreement is suspect. As long as this is unexplained, any foreign officer must question the extent of his freedom to interpret events in his own special area. If his policy reports cannot disagree with a "declared and established" course, his freedom is as limited as that of his colleagues in the Russian foreign service. Although such a concept of guilt by disagreement is alien to all Western...
...associating the University president with a similar German post, was inclined to be a little skeptical. University presidents in Germany only serve a few years in a relative by minor position. West Germans hold no antipathy to the new High Commissioner as a person but did not realize the extent of a university officer's functions and prestige in America...
...questionnaire also asks the student's views as to the extent of medical services which should be offered by the department and presents six alternative sketches of the department's services which it asks him to rate in order of preference...
...extent that any language of mine on the Kansas article may have created any misunderstanding about my ideas this letter will I hope, career it. Zechariah Chafee, Jr. University Professor
...some volume, said the committee, it is time to re-examine the whole idea of building up stocks of weapons that may be obsolete by the time they are needed. The committee's conclusion: the U.S. should stop its hand-to-mouth buying and "substitute, to the greatest extent practicable, production capacity for the stockpiling of military end-items." Much progress has already been made in boosting weapons-making capacity; now the job ought to be finished no matter what the cost. Among the committee's recommendations...