Word: interpreting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says he. "That is a gross oversimplification. We often create problems by exaggerating Soviet influence." This official does not doubt that the Soviets like to exploit any advantage they can find, or that they would like to divide up the world into spheres of influence, but he does not interpret this as a strategy of conquest. "The group in power there is quite cautious," he says. "They're careful about the actions they take. They don't have an overall deliberate design to find ways to put it to the United States...
Which of these two theories is correct? Perhaps both, in part. The Administration itself is divided over how to interpret Soviet behavior in Geneva. Some of those who strongly advocated normalization with Peking, for example, understandably minimize the impact of that move on U.S.-Soviet relations. But arguments that the China policy stalled SALT seem to have more adherents, especially at the State Department, where a number of veteran diplomats had expected some kind of reaction from Brezhnev to Carter's move...
...quickly evicted them. Many officials grumbled over a statement by Egypt's Acting Foreign Minister Boutros Ghali that "a political confrontation will occur during negotiations to define the powers of a Palestinian regime." Though this has been implicit in the Egyptian position all along, Israeli officials chose to interpret it as a raising of the ante. "If that's what the Egyptians are seeking," said one, "this is a new ball game...
...question remains: Are these "quickies" merely commercial ventures for publishers, or do they represent responsible efforts to record and interpret dramatic world events? Profits, it so happens, are likely to be marginal, given the extra shipping, printing and overtime costs that result from speeding up production. In the case of Bantam's Guyana special, these costs amounted to a high five figures. A majority of instant books break even, but some-notably The President's Trip to China and The White House Transcripts-were financial failures, with returns as high as 60%. The Pentagon Papers was their biggest...
...receive suitors. Cynical observors often labeled the coming out season "the marriage market,", since a debutante's family hoped that by the end of the season and its whirl of parties, dances, and functions, the debutante would have become some scion's fiancee. A historian or sociologist might interpret this social mechanism to introduce a girl to the "Right People" as an affirmation of class superiority...