Word: pyrrhic
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Later Kissinger turned his fire on the Pentagon and contributed to Gerald Ford's decision to replace James Schlesinger with Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. It was a Pyrrhic victory. In 1976 Rumsfeld undermined Kissinger's attempt to negotiate an arms-control treaty with the Soviet Union. Why? Because detente had become a political liability to Ford in an election year...
...reasonable in that context. Editor Eugene Roberts of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted, "After every press conference, where often you can't hear very well, you will see three or four variations on the same quote. Just about every time, the intent was preserved." To others, the victory seemed Pyrrhic. Said editor Bill Monroe of the Washington Journalism Review: "I don't see how any journalist can be happy with a judge condoning tampering with specific quotes...
...fair manner that people can speak, that they will not be shouted down, or that the process be so disrupted that meetings will have to be adjourned. Let me tell you that when the meeting had been forced to adjourn, I was at first elated by this Pyrrhic victory, thinking something to the effect of "that will show them." Show what? I now wonder. Show that even at Harvard, undergraduates can be shouted down by fellow undergraduates...
...sure, the costs of this military buildup have been immense on both sides, and in the end this may be a Pyrrhic "victory" for the U.S. The money which the Pentagon has consumed coupled with general American consumerism, has left little for the levels of investment needed to maintain American economic--and thus, over the long term, diplomatic and military--hegemony...
...funds allocated to state higher education have been cut by $42 million since 1987 to compensate for general budget shortfalls. This year, the governor proposes to return the system to its 1987 levels, and many education officials are calling the proposal a victory--if a Pyrrhic...