Word: intervallic
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This attitude, however, was not entirely visible on the eye of Kissinger's accession, because in 1967 and 1968 he had privately put forward a position on the war that made him look far more dovish than anyone in academia, let alone government: the notion of the "decent interval." According...
THE "decent interval" approach would yield startling insight into Kissinger's later policy recommendations on the war. To begin with, the Saigon regime was not being defended out of any real sense of principle. Kissinger was willing and eager to uphold a corrupt totalitarian government with the most brutal possible...
Kissinger's "decent interval" plan also encountered problems in the government itself. Averell Harriman, who briefed Kissinger regularly on the Paris negotiations, is reported to have found the plan "outrageously cynical"; the idea that the United States could turn around and simply abandon its stated purposes in Vietnam (however perverse...
On entering office, Kissinger abandoned the idea of negotiating a "decent interval" with the North Vietnamese. Many factors could have contributed to his change of position: the North Vietnamese may have met such a suggestion with skepticism and distrust; and it was unclear that Nixon had ever approved of the...
The Business School's M. B. A. Faculty voted April 29 to replace the School's 15-interval grading system with four non-numerical grades-Excellent, Satifactory, Marginal Pass, and Unsatisfactory-as part of a broad grading reform.