Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the Boston Study Group met weekly for four years, talking, writing, criticizing, trying to find a way to "re-orient American foreign policy" away from future Hiroshimas and Vietnams. In The Price of Defense, they have made sense of the senseless--they have brought order to the chaos of American foreign and military policy. The present system rests on the assumption that more military spending means a safer nation, and it fails to subordinate military spending to the government's foreign policy goals. The system does not budget money lot specific policy purposes, such as defending Western Europe...
Farouk made Saturday the cruelest day of all. In the morning he would order prisoners brought to the reception area. With a wave of his hand, he would signal which were to die that night. At 7 p.m. precisely, the cars parked in the courtyard would be started to drown out the screams to come. Each prisoner was brought down and told to kneel before an officer in the yard. He was asked to explain why he had been brought in and was told he was being released. Then guards would leap from the darkness, loop a thick rope round...
...chief case in point: affirmative action programs affecting faculty hiring. Calling the power of faculty appointment the "most crucial" of academic matters, since it affects the quality of a university's research and teaching, Shils charges that Caesar "wishes to displace intellectual criteria and to diminish their importance in order to elevate ethnic and sexual criteria. [But] he has no right to intrude into the internal processes which enable universities to perform their proper functions; he has no right, although he might legislate that right for himself from now till doomsday, to suppress or cripple" the pursuit of knowledge...
...complains of fatigue after 17 years at the helm and wants to break out of a contract with two more years to run. Carson's blasts about overwork and diminishing creativity have a strangely familiar sound. Not unlike the media war he waged against NBC two years ago in order to trim his five-a-week live appearances...
...playing sophisticated games like the characters of Manhattan. You have to deny the reality of death to go on every day. But for me, even with all the distractions of my work and my life, I spend a lot of time face to face with my own mortality." In order to distract himself, Allen has spent his entire life compulsively mastering talents with fierce concentration: just as he spent hours practicing magic tricks as a child, he later set out to learn gag writing, performing, poker, sports, clarinet playing and finally film making. He also deals with his anxiety...