Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brink of a possible shooting war?with the U.S., their once common adversary, passively standing by?bordered on a global Theater of the Absurd. After some initial confusion, the increasingly fragmented international Communist movement swung overwhelmingly against China. In Eastern Europe, independent Yugoslavia maintained its customary neutrality. Maverick Rumania appealed to both sides to "stop military actions immediately." The rest of the Warsaw Pact countries, predictably, supported Moscow in condemning what Bulgaria called China's "adventurous and aggressive actions." Even Albania broke out of its longstanding isolation to condemn its recently estranged Chinese ally...
There is thus solace and threat for the Administration in Church's varied views. He vows that his committee will not "quibble with the President or second-guess his every decision." Yet Church is too much a maverick to be predictable. He might well become another of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy problems...
...your business. We take about 10% of the work that comes into the office, and the rest we turn down " Johnson-Burgee and I.M. Pei & Partners are the two "hot" corporate firms in American architecture today; and between Johnson and Pei, younger architects tend to side with Johnson, the maverick...
...drastically changed in the last decade. Radcliffe's impressive list of prominent alumnae notwithstanding, the college has not been perceived, over most of its history, as a route to power in the same sense that Harvard has. This is not surprising. Neither have Smith or Wellesley. Although some maverick women graduating from these institutions have become leaders, they have been far outnumbered by their classmates who became educated homemakers. With the general trend in the '70s shifting to more equal access to power, money and prestige for women, their access to education has widened considerably; hence the move toward equal...
...Maverick Economist Alfred Kahn has a penchant for candor that is both refreshing and dangerous in Washington. When he said that there is the possibility of a "deep, deep depression" if inflation continues to soar, the President was furious. Kahn responded by purging the word depression from his vocabulary and instead using "banana." So he now says: "We're in danger of having the worst banana in 45 years...