Word: extract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-held belief that political, economic and defense issues should be directly linked together in consideration of U.S.-European partnership. It is an idea that has been strongly resisted by Western Europe, which suspects (with good reason) that the U.S. wants to use European defense needs as leverage to extract trade concessions. Brandt made it perfectly clear to Nixon that Western Europe still opposes the linkage approach. Mixing up the issues, he said, posed a danger of "poisoning relations in an area where it is not necessary...
...subterranean water. One proposal, under test by the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, involves sinking two side-by-side holes deep into the earth until they reach hot basement rock (approximately 1,000° F.). Then by pumping cold water into one hole, the scientists hope to extract steam from the other. Project Director Morton Smith reports that test borings to a depth of only 2,500 ft. (v. the final goal of 7,500 ft.) already have produced significant heating. Battelle Memorial Institute is proposing a similar experiment in Montana...
Much of the torture was intended to force "confessions" or extract information. Often prisoners were beaten until unconscious to get them to sign statements about the "humanity" of their treatment. U.S. officials figure that as many as 95% of the P.O.W.s captured before 1970 were tortured. Almost all broke. Said Navy Captain Allen Brady: "I never met a man with whom they were not able to gain at least some of their objectives." Most felt, as did Army Major Floyd J. Thompson, that "these propaganda statements just weren't worth dying...
...Italian Columnist Levi thinks there is a "fundamental fear that for the second consecutive time, the U.S. will draw its own lessons from history. It applied lessons learned in Europe in the '40s and '50s to Asia and found to its dismay Asia was not Europe. To extract itself from the Asian mistake, it had to play a balance-of-power maneuver. The fear is that Washington may apply the lessons learned in Asia in the '60s to Europe in the '70s. A balance-of-power game in Europe would be a disaster...
...considered dependent on their parents. Some observers have cited grad students who are allegedly the scions of millionaires and said they are attempting to cadge a free ride at Harvard's expense. This argument smacks of welfare Cadillacism. To insure that the purported chiselers are pilloried, these observers would extract more payments from hard--pressed middle and lower income parents-whose children predominate in the GSAS--and who have already helped fund their children's undergraduate studies. Graduate students are not future robber barons, but are simply trying to assure themselves of a decent living while they are in school...