Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was the situation, at least, in Europe. In Asia we hoped to reach a similar implicit understanding with China: no big wars, and a firm division of territory. But in trying to stretch our model of the international system into Asia, Oglesby argues, we exposed some of its most inhuman possibilities. The principles which gave Western Europe a benevolent heaven of Marshall aid yielded in Asia a napalm-filled bell...
More significantly, however, both sides remained firm because Crane's initial analysis of the controversy was, in part, correct. Though it was not a conspiracy, the dismissal of Curry was personally as well as politically motivated. Although the five "firing" councillors did have formal access to both the mayor and the manager, they thought that Curry and Crane had rendered the Council's real power nominal. The important decisions were made by the mayor, they felt, who would uphold Curry on any issue. Whether or not this was the case--or, if it was, whether the five were as much...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world's greatest living architect, took time last week to affirm that he, for one, still heeded his conscience, that his faith in his own first principles was as firm as ever...
James Perkins, 54, Cornell. A former Carnegie Corporation executive and wartime Office of Price Administration official who has maintained extensive ties with both education and government, Perkins now heads a presidential committee re-evaluating foreign aid. A firm believer in cooperation among universities, he urged private colleges and universities last week to set up regional networks for mutual planning. He has led Cornell only 21 years, once served as a vice president at Swarthmore...
...industry as a whole last year saw sales jump to a record $20.9 billion, with its backlog of orders hitting an $18.6 billion peak. This was the same industry that, after its post-Sputnik missile and satellite surge, felt its fortunes sag. As recently as 1964, the management consultant firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., declared flatly: "Aerospace is no longer a growing market." Today the Little expert who presided over that report readily admits: "The Viet Cong made a liar out of me." This is true-for the moment. Without question, the U.S. military buildup in Viet Nam gave...