Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, the subject matter is different. But the difference is no defense for ducking away from strong stands. It is no rationale for compromising to avoid fights. Instead of bringing fresh ideas to light in an imaginative manner, the task force has given us 160 pages of unoriginal suggestions. The result is a mass of squandered opportunities and a blow to those who hoped for an undergraduate review that will give us more than incremental change...
...have the usual comments that Iran's long frontiers with the Soviet Union require protection as a part of our Western defense system, and that we require the oil that Iran has available. The question is whether or not we are proceeding to obtain these objectives in the correct manner...
Mendelsohn added he considers the moratorium "a responsible move, and hope others will see it as such and act in a responsible manner...
Struggling with their own problems, world leaders watched closely?and occasionally with understandable bewilderment?to see what manner of man they would have to deal with when the exhausting and uniquely American rite of choosing a President was finally over. As he often points out, Carter has had a richly varied career: Annapolis graduate, Navy officer, nuclear engineer, successful farmer, businessman. Those experiences may have given him, as he insists, some feeling for the variety of problems facing the nation. But no President since Calvin Coolidge has entered the White House with a briefer public record. (Eisenhower had never held...
...often states positions in a manner intended to give the least possible of fense to his audience. To a conservative audience: "We should not withdraw our troops from South Korea, except on a phased basis." He also has a way of seeming to agree with an argument?he smiles, he says, "I understand"?that leads people to think he is agreeing with them, thereby raising false expectations. One of the serious problems of Carter's presidency may be a tendency to raise expectations too high, to promise more than he can deliver...