Word: hastens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that it was essential that Portugal remain in NATO. The moderates' strongest objections are thus directed less at the new Premier than at Gonçalves' retention as Chief of Staff. In fact, his removal as Premier, far from avoiding a showdown, might very well hasten...
...what sort of liberation? The question was put poignantly by a U.S. nun who asked in one group discussion, "Do we have to opt for revolution?" The theologians' answer is yes-although they hasten to add that revolution covers a broad range of options, not all of them violent. Jesuit John Coleman of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union says that there are elements of selflessness and idealism in the U.S. tradition that could be used to inspire Americans to "fight for structural reforms [that] most would call revolutions." But the blacks, feminists, Chicanos, American Indians and other North...
...Force combat and tanker planes and 150 Navy planes had been moved into the area. But Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the U.S. ambassador in Saigon, Graham Martin, argued that the final withdrawal of the American community would probably set off a wave of panic in Saigon and hasten the fall of the South Vietnamese government...
...academic or institutional subset thereof. In his Letter to the Faculty. Dean Rosovsky bemoans the fact that the diversity of the students body, the size of the University, and its location in an urban environment have a "fragmenting effect" on the student body. The proposed residential isolationism would only hasten such fragmentation and would, in fact, carry it to a dangerous extreme...
Market Power. Even before the conference opened, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders struck a discordant note. In an interview on British television, he declared that the U.S. aim is "to get enough market power to hasten OPEC'S demise," referring to the producers' cartel, the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Though that U.S. attitude is scarcely a surprise, it was undiplomatic of Enders to voice it so bluntly; Under Secretary of State Charles W. Robinson, chief of the U.S. delegation, disavowed the remarks in a background briefing for American correspondents...