Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scale of the disturbances was greatly enlarged in numbers, intensity and violence by the delay in calling the police--from Thursday night until Monday night--which the Ad Hoc Faculty Group forced upon the University officials. Although perhaps the effort had to be made, there was never a significant chance that the Group could negotiate a peaceful withdrawal from the buildings. Forcing a delay, by threats of physical interposition, increased the likelihood of violence and magnified the reaction by lending an air of legitimacy to use of the tactics of physical disruption as means of forcing one view of policy...
...Christ-surrogate who wanted to be martyred so that his people might feel that some fitting atonement had been made for the monstrous wrongs done them. But Shaw's conception of martyrdom makes it seem less a matter of conscience that an attention-getting device on a grandiose scale. Some crimes-and the murder of the Jews is certainly one-dwarf atonement and defy retributive justice. A token of evil can be caged in a glass booth, but evil itself can never be exorcised there...
...billion at any given time. Xerox has been in the market for merger partners or acquisitions for several years, ever since former President Joseph Wilson decided that "our future depends on what we do in fields other than copying." On the other hand, though C.I.T. denies any plans to scale down its auto-financing operations, it can hardly ignore the attempts of competitors to profit from computers and other business machines. For example, Baltimore's Commercial Credit Co., another leading finance firm, recently merged with Control Data Corp., a large computer manufacturer...
...point." The U.S. and the Soviets, he suggests, have reached a Mexican standoff: "It is futile for each of us to spend $4 billion, $40 billion or $400 billion-and at the end of all the spending ... to be relatively at the same point of balance on the security scale that we are now . . . What the world requires is not a new race toward armament, but a new race toward reasonableness...
...Since a bubble on such a large scale is a relatively new concept," a B&G spokes-man said, "we wanted to be sure the structure conformed with city and state safety standards, was what we needed, and would...