Word: inferring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration came to power dominated by hedgehogs determined to oppose the "one big thing" of Soviet military power and expansion. It tended to Infer Soviet control of whatever the United States government didn't like, for example the nuclear freeze movement, the Sandinistas, or Muammar Qaddafi. And since Third World outposts like Nicaragua or Libya or Angola were easier to get at than places like Poland or Afghanistan, why not concentrate on these places first? The problem, of course, is the inference of Soviet control. If Qaddafi or the Sandinistas or the Angolan leadership or the Syrians really...
...infer that Caucasian babies are the only ones who show signs of intelligence at birth? Surely TIME did not intend to give that message to its reading public, even though all of your photographs are of white babies...
...Ustinov for the first time referred to Andropov as Chairman of the Defense Council. The new title meant that Andropov now holds a post equivalent to commander in chief, thereby occupying two of the three top positions once held by Brezhnev. (The office of President remains unfilled.) Some Kremlinologists infer that Andropov has been consolidating his powers over rivals like Konstantin Chernenko, a onetime Brezhnev protege, who has not been seen in public since March...
...believe that our respect was mutual," he writes of his relationship with DeGaulle. DeGaulle was a great leader, and hence the readers can infer the same about Nixon. The preening emerges during his discussion about Brezhnev. During meetings in Moscow, Nixon "sensed" that the Soviet leader was "pained that our exchanges during the October crises had been so tough." The implication lingers that it was Nixon's "toughness" during the crisis following the October 1973 Middle East War that caused U.S: diplomacy to succeed. Other examples abound of anecdotes apparently designed to point up that Nixon himself had the same...
...anthropologist Richard Lee has described an unusual Christmas in a Kung San village in the Kalahari Desert To show his appreciation for the tribe generosity, Lee slaughtered the fattest ox in the neighborhood as a Christmas gift. The Kung responded only with abuse and ridicule, and Lee had to infer that such displays of wealth and superiority are inappropriate. "The interesting thing is the competitive aspect of gift-giving, and that generosity can be interpreted in lots of different ways in different societies...