Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position from which to start working for a volunteer army is that, to a large extent, the nation already has one-in the sense that two-thirds of its present troops are enlistees. Neither Nixon nor anyone else visualizes a rapid changeover. The draft will doubtless endure until the war in Viet Nam ends, but it could then be phased out gradually. After that, the draft structure can be kept in stand-by readiness, thinks Nixon, "without leaving 20 million young Americans who will come of age during the next decade in constant uncertainty and apprehension...
Even if the U.S. and Russia could come to a meeting of minds on the Middle East, along with Britain and France as the only other potential sources of arms, the question remained to what extent a settlement could be imposed on the quarrelsome antagonists. The Arabs now seem eager to have their borders guaranteed by the big powers, and the present leaders of the Arab world know that an imposed settlement is the only kind that they could politically survive. Israel insists that any lasting peace can only be negotiated by those responsible for living with it, and stoutly...
...result of an innocent addiction to humanist hopefulness about man, along with the corollary doctrine of unfettered personal freedom-both typical of Passant's thinking. During the trial of the two young harpies a nostalgic form of liberalism is also being weighed-and to a large extent found wanting...
...what would happen was still essentially unknown, a true probe in the imagination; the space capsule could have yoyoed the moon and whipped off towards the sun on a screaming tangent. But more importantly, only we, observing the space shot at the moment it happened, can fully understand the extent of human knowledge, mythology, and curiosity at the time of the experience...
Again people who ask this fail to see the oneness of man's condition. Space spending is related to spending on social programs only to the extent that it is related to all spending, all efforts of man's production and economy...