Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State: I don't necessarily think the United States has to get involved in any military sense in the case of a Sino-Soviet conflict. I think politically the American role has to be at least a background factor in any conflict. The uncertainty about how the Americans will react--since they are the background factor in any three-party game--will be felt. But I don't think it follows that we have to get involved directly in any military sense...
...very traditions of a strong power do not allow the leaders of totalitarian states to react directly to pressure exerted against them. At the same time, boycotts weaken realistically useful contacts and diminish the number of levers that can be used to apply pressure in the future...
...Carter's most recent press conference, one reporter asked the president to react to the fourth-quarter profits of the oil companies which reached 48 per cent, 72 per cent, 44 per cent and 134 per cent in light of the president's request that workers in the oil industry hold their wage demands to seven per cent. Carter answered that, like all good Americans, he would "like to see a good balance between prices and profits...
DEREK BOK HAS CHOSEN to emphasize professional ethics, the academic study of how moral principles can be applied to situations that arise in professional life. Professional ethics are, almost by definition, situational: they teach one how to react to moral dilemmas, how best to conduct oneself in a given set of circumstances. They rarely, however, strike at basic, absolute moral principles of right and wrong--they lay out the accepted lines of conduct, but rarely examine the difference between what is accepted and what is right. They set the standards of a profession, but they cannot set the guidelines...
...other Arab states will react if Sadat concludes a separate peace with Israel: Some measures will have to be taken. This will not be difficult. In 1950 Egypt proposed a resolution to the Arab League, which was unanimously adopted, calling for expulsion from the league of any state that signed a separate peace with Israel. If Sadat signs the treaty with Israel, I think the break [with the other Arabs] would be irrevocable...