Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam. Less decisive than McNamara, Rusk is nevertheless valuable to Johnson not only as a loyal conduit for his policies but also as a skillful operator on Capitol Hill and a man of quiet reason. Johnson repays Rusk's loyalty. When critics asked why he did not reach into the lower echelons of the State Department for advice as Jack Kennedy often did, Johnson replied, "Hell, I go to Dean Rusk. He's my Secretary of State." Bundy, a Bostonian whose occasionally astringent manner has chilled more than a few acquaintances, still unnerves his Texas-bred boss...
...reported that the Corporation to reach a decision on a change in the selection system within the next few weeks...
...enduring point of this book lies in its description of the process of shaping American policy abroad, and the harsh price exacted from well meaning men who only see what they want to see. To formulate a foreign policy which will reach its goal, the landscape on the way must be closely observed. The caution Halberstam learned slogging through the jungles of Katanga is relevant to policy makers attempting to plot America's course abroad: "The relationship between African maps and African landscape is extremely haphazard...
...officials during the War of 1812, is crying for new millions to expand its medical school. In Fredericton, New Brunswick, the provincial university is bursting its serene bounds. The University of Montreal's 14,000 on-campus students will soon ride two new escalators tunneled through granite to reach their campus on Mount Royal, 200 feet above the street, where 23 new buildings are built or planned in a five-year $50 million program. McGill is spending $42 million on new plant in a drive for quality, but hopes to hold its enrollment...
...those record corporate profits (up some 9% in the first quarter) and bright economic indicators at home (see THE NATION). So long as they continue, the stock market is almost certain to move well up into the 900s by year's end, even if it does not reach the magic 1000 figure that some Wall Streeters look...