Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means used to implement this course of conduct or plan included one or more of the following...
...State Department, it was privately described as one of "constructive ambiguity" by some who had been left in the capital to implement it. While not embracing the new President, the U.S. dropped the ousted Makarios by pointedly calling him only "archbishop" rather than "President." To critics, that appeared to be an unseemly speedy desertion of a legitimate head of state...
...Governor of California. The bachelor son of former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown chose to switch from a Jesuit seminary to Yale Law School in the early 1960s, became a civil rights activist and antiwar crusader. By using the long-ignored power of his office-secretary of state-to implement campaign reform, he soon began making a name of his own, most recently by launching a well-publicized investigation into President Nixon's tax returns. Stiffer than his convivial father, he is nonetheless winning strong support as an outspoken reformer...
Valery Giscard d'Estaing wasted no time trying to implement his presidential visions for France. Since his election last month he has moved quickly and skillfully to put together what he calls "a new majority"-a broad coalition in the National Assembly of his own Independent Republicans, the centrists and liberal Gaullists. His efforts were rewarded when Premier Jacques Chirac won an overwhelming parliamentary vote of confidence for the new government. Last week, however, Giscard and Chirac discovered that there are pitfalls in moving ahead with too much haste. Only twelve days after appointing Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber...
...reconstructed and as yet un published directive emphasizes a longterm, cautious struggle to take over all of Viet Nam. Communist forces will try to force Saigon to implement the Paris accords ("a great victory") so that the North Vietnamese army and Viet Cong guerrillas can nip off territory bit by bit. Says the document: "We will have to attack point by point, grasping partial victories and advancing to ward final victory...