Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Associate Editor Burton Pines, who wrote the narrative of this latest crisis, agrees: "The symbolic significance we attach to what the Soviets are doing is as important as the objective facts. The mere perception of power determines the behavior of nations as often as the use of power." Pines was one of five writers assigned to the cover package by Friedrich and World Senior Editor John Elson. TIME correspondents cabled details of the developments from Moscow, Washington and Havana, where Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had been covering the Conference of Nonaligned Countries. Talbott found no shortage of soldierly looking Soviets...
...tackling procedural matters that would affect the future shape of the movement. Here, at least, the moderates put up a stiff fight, proposing hundreds of amendments to Cuban draft declarations in an effort to tone down the pro-Soviet thrust. Another attempt to curb Castro's power was a proposal to expand the membership of the Coordinating Bureau, which acts on behalf of the movement between triennial summit meetings. By gaining some of the additional seats, moderates hoped to check Cuban militancy over the next three years, when Castro will serve a chairman of the nonaligned movement...
Maybe there's nothing there to have insight into. There's a strong logical presumption that anyone with that much power must lead an interesting life. There's no definitive Nixon biography yet, but the books of Woodward and Bernstein hint at just how fascinating that book could be. There's no definitive LBJ biography yet either, mostly because Bill Moyers won't write it, but his, too, was a big life, a larger-than-life life. But Jerry Ford comes from a different mold--he fell into his job. He made it to the top the way officers advance...
...size and power of Harvard's investment portfolio, like most things at Harvard, is shrouded in mystery. Portfolio managers daily decide the direction of the University's investments, secluded from student demonstrators and outside interference. Like the gnomes of Zurich, they keep their decisions out of the public eye and help to perpetuate the myth behind Harvard's portfolio. They are cautious, conservative investors, seemingly unshaken by the moral and ethical questions students raise...
Student charges of the committee's ineffectiveness and its near-perfect record of following the Corporation's line, especially as an investor using Harvard's power through shareholder resolutions, has marred the committee's image among students. The Corporation assigned the committee the task of a case-by-case review of corporate practices in South Africa and of recommending possible shifts in the portfolio. The ACSR could have taken on the role of independent critic, but it has rarely dissented from past Corporation policies. Its reports indicated that instead of fighting to alter corporate practices by sponsoring shareholder resolutions...