Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly, it was the discouraging and threatening events in Viet Nam and Cambodia that preoccupied the President. Realistically, he sought no new help for the Phnom-Penh government, although he could not resist chiding Congress for its recent reluctance to provide more aid. He noted dryly that he had requested "food and ammunition for the brave Cambodians" in January, and that "as of this evening, it may be too late." Indeed it was. Two days later, U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean closed the U.S. embassy in Phnom-Penh, and he and his small remaining staff were evacuated by U.S. Marine...
...French could not resist pronouncing America's decline. Gloated Le Monde in its headline: WHAT PEACE? WHAT HONOR? A Le Point editorial warned: "This is what has become of the American giant. Let Europe beware. His paralysis is contagious." But one French diplomat expressed the predominant view of officials there that "American power has not collapsed...
...added indictments that might yet be brought. Said Kunstler, whose defense of Indian Activist Russell Means last year and the Chicago Seven in 1970 drew greater attention: "The case is too old. Attica is a painful subject, and most people want to stay away." Yet Showman Kunstler could not resist the temptation to flay witnesses and have a go at State Supreme Court Justice Gilbert H. King, who presided firmly. "I'm fed up with your telling me I have no conscience," said King, rejecting one ill-timed Kunstler motion for dismissal. "I have as much conscience, I think...
Harvard's flaws are no less apparent to transfers than to four-year students but it's easier for transfers to resist being spoiled by Harvard because they're seen other places. "The Harvard experience isn't college, it's Harvard," says Barton and that seems to sum up the experiences of most transfers...
...they could produce a hair-curling federal budget deficit of $100 billion or more for the next fiscal year (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Ford said that any such deficit would be "too dangerous to permit," since it would "threaten another vicious spiral of runaway double-digit inflation." He vowed to resist any attempt by Congress to pass spending programs that would produce a deficit any higher than $60 billion...