Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply, Hoffmann declared that "When one stresses a common interest in survival as a basis for negotiations and agreements," one must beware of assuming that "just because we would take unilateral measures in the direction of peace, the Soviet Union would take parallel unilateral measures. It might just as well do the opposite, and take advantage of the gap thus opened...
...more hope in tacit, parallel restraints. These, he claimed, "do not assume a sudden, radical alternation in human nature. After all, if you feel that man remains pig-headed enough to start a war if he is not disarmed, how can you believe he has suddenly become rational enough to willingly give up his arms?" An informal agreement, less restrictive of sovereignty and less threatening to security than an inspected arms ban, might have more effect, Hoffmann concluded...
Thus the Council's move was simply a feeble effort to put a respectable face on things. The parallel with the Ivy League is this: it is just as hypocritical for Ohio State to refuse to go to the Rose Bowl as it is for Harvard and the Ivies to say they don't recruit (in the "evil" sense of the word...
...Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Act forbids employers to inquire into the race, religion, national origin, or creed of a prospective employee. The Fair Educational Practice provisions which parallel the act make similar requirements of educational institutions in the state. Thus high school students applying for admission to Harvard College are requested to mention nothing which would indicate their racial or religious background. And they are pointedly not asked to submit photographs of themselves. The democratic principle underlying the Massachusetts law needs no introduction to members of Phillips Brooks House, which has distinguished itself by fighting against discrimination in housing...
...nearly every issue I see coming up in the future, the students want to reach a reasonable decision and consider the Administration's point of view," she explained. "Our interests are parallel, not divergent. All of us who are concerned with the College's problems should get together to work them...