Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower last week made it easier for businessmen abroad to compete with U.S. industrialists for contracts with the Government. By executive order, the President changed the way the Government will interpret the Buy American...
...obvious part of this strategy was the Red Chinese announcement-on the same day that the U.S. airmen were convicted-that they would release a Canadian flyer also captured during the Korean war (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Communists figured that Washington would scream with indignation; Britain and France would interpret this as a further evidence of rash American bellicosity and back away, thus weakening the chances of a European agreement on German rearmament...
First, the committee will publish information on the mechanics of the University's operation so that alumni can "favorably interpret Harvard's position on controversial issues." Alumni will also be encouraged to join Harvard Club branches and to subscribe to the Alumni Bulletin...
That picture of the Indo-Chinese women greeting the Viet Minh in Hanoi looks more like a national convention of tombstone gazers than a glad-hand welcoming committee. Ho Chi Minh and his henchmen would probably shudder with fear if they could properly analyze and interpret the facial expressions of these sad-looking souls...
...common-sense policy on the Petrobras oil law is to let it stand until nationalistic sentiment subsides, and get as much foreign participation in oil development as the law's loopholes permit. Explains Cafe Filho laconically: "The problem now is not to change the law, but to interpret...