Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Naderized" by the nation's leading consumer activist. Nader arranged the visit to declare that Citibank had been chosen as the target of one of his encyclopedic studies. He wanted Wriston to open up to 16 young Raiders, mostly first-year law-school students, who would conduct the probe. Citibank's chief agreed to cooperate. To colleagues who worried about the project, Wriston cheerfully remarked: "We're getting a free management survey...
...shall govern Viet Nam?were not negotiable. What were legitimate compromises from Washington's point of view were matters of life and death to the Vietnamese." How can this kind of thinking be changed? Gelb contends that a President must demand much more of his security advisers; they must probe more deeply into what really is in the national interest. The President must also take the risk of "re-educating the public and congressional opinion about Communism." If Nixon and his predecessors, it now seems clear, had not spoken so often about the need for "victory" and the humiliation...
...sooner finished his 15-minute presentation in favor of the bill than Chairman Mills showed his hand. "I want to congratulate you," he told Connally, "for making a very fine statement in behalf of a very weak cause." The other members of the committee then proceeded to probe the weak points skillfully...
STEP 1: NATO members will individually probe Warsaw Pact countries about their concepts and intentions in regard to troop reductions...
STEP 2: If the soundings are encouraging, NATO deputy foreign ministers will meet in Brussels as early as autumn to draw up a joint NATO negotiating position. NATO representatives will then be chosen to probe further into Warsaw Pact reactions to the NATO proposals. If there appears to be a possibility for success, NATO would then invite the Communist countries to a full-dress conference, possibly in Copenhagen, that would start the bargaining process for a scale-down of the huge concentration of men and weaponry that is squared off and combat-ready in the heart of Europe...