Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urged investigating the Commission. But apparently he was urging the Faculty to reaffirm the principle of reciprocity embodied in the original Resolution on Rights and Responsibility. If those studying the Commission fail to consider restructuring it or changing its mandate, no study or publicity will make the Commission an instrument for establishing the responsible community to which the original CRR aspired...
...Americans, but the main emphasis was on reconstruction. The Joint Commission, which is expected to begin its work in about a month, will be based in Hanoi but may hold some of its meetings in Washington. Although its creation reflects a spirit of reconciliation, it is not entirely an instrument of charity. Quite bluntly, Kissinger made it clear in Hanoi that U.S. aid is conditional upon the Communists' observing the terms of the truce settlement...
...Joni Mitchell album. Her most recent triumph is less obsessively introspective, more poetic, and more varied in tone. Unlike the upbeat but somewhat plodding piano style of other piano and guitar-playing folk-singers, Mitchell plays richly enough and sensitively enough to make an orchestra from one instrument. Her voice--which covers so broad a range expertly that it becomes another part of the orchestra--sounds more resonant on this album, but that may be the consequence of a new record company...
...learn to view the Russians both as rivals and as fellow citizens of the planet; he must enter arms control negotiations not already convinced of their futility, but rather convinced of their necessity. He must see the United Nations not as a world debating society, but as a useful instrument for resolution of conflict. He must realize, and make the American people accept, the fact that the leaders of new nations can in good conscience find little profit in military alliance on either side of the cold war; he must not view neutralist flirtation with the Soviets as the first...
...courteous and kindly. But often his tactics in the governmental game beyond the Oval Office are insensitive and brutal. It is a two-way street, to be sure, and the Congress and other folks have committed their sins. But the power is in the White House. It is the instrument of initiative. What Nixon wants for the nation is not all that much different from what most others would like. But the manner in which he has gone at it has them muttering about King Richard even in Washington's exclusive Metropolitan Club...