Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign or domestic. They can provide at least as much intrinsic interest as problems of theory or methodology. But if the scholar is to make a contribuiton to policy problems, he must be willing to address himself to the problems of the policy maker. He must be willing to help answer the policy maker's question. "What do you want me to do about it?" He may, and indeed he should try to stretch the limitations within which the policy maker works, but he cannot ignore them...
...G.O.P. nomination of a liberal candidate in 1968 would help to get the bill passed, White suggested, because both parties would be vying for the Negro vote...
...probably returned to service in the executive branch confident that his abilities and patience at a bargaining table could help to solve the conflict in Vietnam. After all, conflict-solving through long, often dull talk, had been the premise for Goldberg's entire career. But this time he wasn't a mediator or adversary in a domestic labor dispute; he had involved himself in the more subtle--and far more perplexing--world of international politics. Unlike American labor-management disputes, international opponents find it difficult to agree on ground rules, much less what terms of settlement actually mean...
...problems which the Institute faces at this early point in its career, Hoffmann says, is not to abolish it. Even for many of the people who are dissatisfied with the Administration's policies, a working knowledge of how policy is made, and closer contact with Washington, would help them criticize the Establishment more intelligently, he maintains...
Cambridge officials are ambivalent about the new emphasis that the Joint Center is apparently preparing to adopt. On the other hand, they recognize that the Center could help them cope with Cambridge's problems, and they resent what they consider the Center's neglect of Cambridge. "Most of those professors know their way around Washington better than they do around Cambridge," a Cambridge official declared recently. "You could plop them down four blocks from Central Square and they'd never find their way home...