Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home opener, Harvard meets defending NCAA National Champion Stanford. In search of other top competitors, Pike has the squad travelling to Annapolis to battle nationally ranked Air Force at a neutral site in October, and has requested berths against Eastern powers Fordham and Bucknell in the Brown Invitational the last weekend in September...
...question of whether Washington can survive with its main engine in neutral is far less urgent than whether reporters can survive a month without presidential news. One can only do so much with the story of the local rat carrying the bubonic plague, unless, of course, the plague recurs. About 70 members of the press corps are encamped in Santa Barbara, all living fairly well, that being the way to live in Santa Barbara, but some going quietly mad nonetheless, as the President cuts and clears. Whenever Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes announces that the President is cutting and clearing...
...plan designed to dispel Hanoi's fear that its enemy, China, might attempt to seize Cambodia if Viet Nam withdrew from the country. The proposal called for disarming all forces contending for power in Cambodia, including 30,000 to 40,000 Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge guerrillas. A neutral, interim government under U.N. supervision would then be established to organize free elections...
...during the dirty war almost invariably received harsher treatment than Gentiles. There have been stories for years of guards flaunting Nazi regalia in some Argentine jails. Many recall that Argentina was a haven for fleeing Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann, after World War II, and that the country remained stubbornly neutral throughout the war. Today some Argentine officials make no secret of their prejudices. One police colonel has bragged to leaders of the Jewish community, "I love to kill Jews. We like to have fun torturing Jews. The only mistake Hitler made was not to kill all the Jews." A well...
...sachems of the Gilded Age, their mansions, yachts, gargantuan dinner parties and cyclopean stickpins. In The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Veblen did not hide his disdain for such display. He belonged to an era of sociology before it married computer science, bred statistics and headed for the neutral horizons of market research...