Word: resists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private educational institutions, however, must not only resist external interference. They must also realize something else, perhaps for some as difficult. They must realize they are an integral part of the private sector. And other portions of the private sector must also come to this realization. As I have had occasion to say, the ancient ballet of mutual antagonism--at times evidently so deeply satisfying--between private enterprise, on the one hand, and private education, on the other, is not to anyone's interest. That ballet of antagonism must give way to a capacity for responsible collaboration. There...
Behind these expressions of outrage are fears in Moscow that Peking may purchase up to $10 billion worth of arms from Western Europe, including antitank and antiaircraft weapons that could be used to resist a Soviet invasion. When Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua flew to London this month for talks with British Prime Minister James Callaghan, Moscow assumed Huang was on an arms-buying expedition. Said Tass: "Those in Britain who are inclined to encourage Peking's aggressive militarism ought not to forget that no rifle has yet been invented which can fire in only one direction...
Schlesinger, of course, was an insider, one of those who had direct access to President Kennedy. He was one of those invited out to Hickory Hill, Bobby's mansion, "the most spirited social center in Washington." And as this colleaguecum-historian writes, "It was hard to resist the raffish, unpredictable, sometimes uncontrollable Kennedy parties." So this is biography written by the Washington equivalent of a drinking buddy of the subject. And the book's credibility is cut still further when, in a passage set in the early '60s, the author suddenly enters the picture, standing at poolside at Hickory Hill...
...slump is not across the board. The Golden State, like the rest of the country, continues to have a modest housing high in the "affordable" $55,000 to $75,000 price range. But buyers are beginning to resist the three-bedroom tract house squished onto a postage-stamp lot for $122,900 - and a 10% mortgage rate. Ob serves David Shulman, a member of Governor Jerry Brown's housing task force...