Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Asian policy has turned to China. The 1973 Shanghai communique set the establishment of normal relations with the People's Republic as the primary task for the two nations. And in the entire debate concerning recognition of China, of Vietnam, and in fact of any nation that undergoes a major political change, a basic confusion of means and ends fundamentally weakens any U.S. moves to achieve its legitimate foreign policy goals. Throughout the debate surrounding diplomatic recognition of Vietnam and China, recognition has been viewed as a fundamental statement of support by the United States for whatever government it proposes...
...Carter, as for those who framed the original China policies in the wake of Nixon's visit in 1972, the exchange of diplomatic relations formed the cornerstone of a new Asian policy. With that exchange--the playing of the "China card"--the United States seemed to have achieved a major foreign policy objective--that of re-entering the Asian continental political arena...
Concentrators said they agreed with the visiting committee's report which states that the department's major problem is its shortage of tenured faculty. Students said that lowering the status of the department would further exacerbate the situation and decrease the department's legitimacy in the eyes of other Faculty members and student advisers...
...played a leading role in the introduction of Quality of Work Life Programs [QWL] in GM plants. A form of industrial democracy, these programs aim to give workers greater control over decisions concerning the work process on the shop-floor. UAW's programs represent the first effort by a major union to introduce some measure of shop-floor democracy on a large scale in the United States...
...address to the convention, King said his two major goals in office are to cut taxes without cutting "essential" services and to foster the development of a healthy, growth-oriented economy...