Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaving the publisher's chair to join the office of President James R. Shepley. His assignment, as Shepley wrote in a memo to the staff, will be "to share the duties of my office and familiarize himself with all of Time Inc.'s major lines of business...
Although the Cuban crisis of 1962 proved to the U.S.S.R. the need for increased maritime capability, Stalin had earlier recognized this fact during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. He had been prevented from supporting the Loyalists by the threat of opposing naval forces. The major naval construction program he initiated withered after the German invasion of June 1941, but in July 1945 Stalin ordered the building of a mighty fleet to protect and support Soviet interests...
Carter's attacks on the Soviets represent a major policy change. Since entering office, the President has generally followed Vance's moderate approach of amiable cooperation with the Soviets. Indeed, Carter feels that he has gone more than halfway. He shelved the B-1 bomber. He deferred production of the neutron bomb. He toned down his human rights campaign a bit. He softened his initially tough SALT proposals...
...result, some programs have become spectacularly wasteful, inept and indeed corrupting. A sampling of the major culprits...
...main objectives which Wyatt cite as the reasons for forming a corporation are to improve services to students living off campus and to tenants, and to help faculty who wish to live in Cambridge find housing. "We want one office to handle both of these major issues, so that when a new faculty member, student, or prospective tenant comes up to Harvard for the week-end, wishing to settle living arrangements, they will be able to go somewhere where they can find an answer," says Wyatt...