Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find myself embroiled in a silly controversy over some minor observation which could as well have been left out of the speech. I think you have responsibility for conveying the essence of messages and not just those parts which lend themselves to controversy." As for the brothel remark, said Fulbright, it was intended to illustrate the "general proposition that rich and strong nations have a powerful impact on small and weak ones. Frankly, it never occurred to me that a brief summary of an article by Neil Sheehan in the New York Times would attract such widespread interest...
...Wilson, ex-chairman of the General Motors Corp., told the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1953, during hearings to confirm his appointment as Secretary of Defense: "For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." The truth of that celebrated remark has never been more apparent than today. For five straight years, the U.S. economy has enjoyed unprecedented good times, and no company has benefited more from the prosperity or contributed more to it than General Motors. Now that the sales of the nation's biggest and most influential manufacturer...
...fact that practically half of corporate profits goes to the Government -the current tax rate is 48%-led John Kennedy to remark that, "If American business does not cash a fair profit, this Government cannot earn sufficient revenues to cover its outlays." Almost all of the rest goes to the owners of American business-millions of ordinary Americans, who last year collected $18.9 billion in dividends-or is plowed back by business for expansion, modernization, automation and research. Business must be profitable in order to attract investors to put up still more risk capital. Such high-profit industries as electronics...
...That remark might well be dismissed as an attempt at wit by a literate and witty professor. Galbraith, however, certainly did not consider it so. Later he added that-although he does not advocate direct U.S. withdrawal-Viet Nam is "a country which has not the slightest strategic importance." His neo-isolationism is less significant as a personal viewpoint than as a measure of a growing tendency among academics and other critics of U.S. policy to believe that Viet Nam is simply not very important to the U,S. It also reflects the feelings of a great many other Americans...
Galbraith's remark evoked a time when the U.S. still spoke of "dark" corners in the world and even of entire "dark" continents. In fact, he seemed to suggest a new principle for evaluating countries or regions-a sort of sliding obscurity scale-without making it clear how it would be applied. The standards of obscurity are historically fickle. Czechoslovakia and Poland seemed fairly obscure to many Americans in the 1930s, but events there led to World War II. Greece was an off-Broadway tragedy after World War II until Harry Truman decided to commit U.S. power there...