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...equivalent represent the best we can hope for says Eban. Such an agreement among the Superpowers to cooperate where they can and keep differences towards tolerable and non-lethal proportions with the faint hope that the goodwill from the former occasionally seeps into the latter. It is foolish, Eban warns, to imagine Soviet designs for global hegemony. It wants to be treated like a superpower but is governed by a self-interest that will induce it to caution in world affairs. What really went wrong with detente in the 1970's was not the unsoundness of the idea...
Such verbal knee jerks might be dismissed as harmless. But they never were by Orwell. "The slovenliness of our language," he wrote in 1946, "makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." And it is a surpassing irony that the title Orwell made famous has become a symptom of the very sloppiness he deplored: what he called a "Meaningless Word," a ramshackle abstraction inviting everyone to come in and stop thinking for a while...
...break in ranks left House Democratic leaders flabbergasted and furious. "It's possible to do something so clever that it's stupid," chided Majority Leader James Wright. "They've made a foolish gesture, subject to misunderstanding in their districts." Indeed, after two days of rebuke by their leaders and angry buttonholing by the powerful education lobby, all but twelve of the dissident Democrats came back to the fold. The continuing resolution, with a $1 billion hike in education and other social programs attached, passed the House...
...think that's plain foolish. The idea of having diplomatic relations is to be able to communicate. And the time when you dispense with diplomatic relations is when you have given up on the idea of communication and when you are seeking other means to settle your problems. I don't like a world in which we're seeking other means to settle our problems...
...Problems resulted from budget cuts when building," says Edie Groden, the GSD's director of building services. "They were penny wise and pound foolish, but at the time there simply was not enough money...