Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incompetent, dangerous and inadequate alternatives" to Safeguard. One of the points often made by Safeguard's opponents is that the system would require so quick a decision to be activated in time of national danger that the President might be excluded from the process. Bill Moyers raised the fear of a President's "surrendering his decision-making authority to the computers and the junior military officers who stand over them." Foster retorted that by offering some degree of protection to U.S. offensive missiles, Safeguard would give the President more leeway than he might otherwise enjoy before launching...
...decision outraged many of Germany's trading partners, who saw it as a shortsighted and selfish maneuver that threatens their own economies. The French are bound to feel that the Germans are trying to force them into devaluing just after their June 1 presidential elections. The British rightly fear that their fragile pound will come under renewed speculative attack. Britain's foreign debts far exceed its reserves of gold and foreign money, and sterling may be able to cling to its $2.40 rate only if international creditors give the British more time to repay...
...Glassman's article portrays me as saying that the Governing Boards of Harvard are unwilling to abolish ROTC for fear that Harvard will lose federal research grants. This is a complete distortion of what I said, due in part, it is fair to say, to the way in which a portion of my remarks were reported...
...revolt was sparked by fear among investors that Montedison was on the verge of "hidden nationalization." The two biggest government industrial enterprises-ENI and I.R.I.-recently acquired a near-controlling interest in Montedison, a diversified manufacturer of chemicals and other basic products (TIME, Oct. 18). Now they were proposing a rule change that would give government forces virtual veto power in the Montedison board. Enraged, more than 2,000 small stockholders turned up at the meeting, the largest such group ever to so gather in Italy...
...intellectual way. This absence of emotion can be frightening, but only so if you believe yourself to be on a a "trip." You are equally incapable of emotion while playing tennis or doing anyone of a great set of totally occupying things. Do you ever stop playing tennis for fear of departing from the "natural" human condition...