Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The vigor of the European Community's initiative contrasted with the almost surreal serenity of the summit's site in the historic center of Venice. The statesmen were as enchanted with the beguiling city as countless ordinary tourists before them. French President Valéry Giscard d'...
Robert Legvold, the senior Kremlinologist for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, returned from a recent visit to the U.S.S.R. deeply discouraged: "There is a sense in Moscow that we may have passed through a watershed and may be entering a long period of tensions. The Soviets...
The academic effectiveness of the system was challenged in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite. Almost overnight, it was perceived that American training was not competitive with that of the U.S.S.R. Public criticism and government funds began to converge on U.S. schools. By 1964, achievement scores in...
Nunn: I agree. Pay where you need to pay, not across the board. But then you run into the historic issue of military equity in which soldiers of similar rank traditionally get just about similar pay.
Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger declared from an Oberammergau pulpit, "AntiSemitism has no part in this play." Saying that anti-Semitism can be brought on "by talking about it," he added: "I beg of everybody, particularly our Jewish friends, to stop reproaching us with an anti-Semitism totally alien...