Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...populate prisons and asylums because of the New Left's "wisdoms" and its rock troubadours. He lists the end of the war and the draft, the wide acceptance of marijuana, and women's liberation as the New Left's enduring accomplishments. Whether these will positively shape the course of the future remains to be seen. Mr. Morrow seems unbothered by long-range outcomes. He comforts and encourages the radicals that their "cycle will surely come around again...
Other parts of Lockheed's business are in fine shape. The company's total order backlog, largely military, has risen to $4.6 billion, up $1 billion in twelve months. Defense business is consistently profitable; it ranges from cargo aircraft to missiles and electronics-to say nothing of secret projects undertaken at Lockheed's "skunk works," which turned out, among other things, the U2. Negotiations are under way between the Japanese de fense agency and the U.S. Department of Defense for the sale of 44 Orion antisubmarine aircraft, a deal that would bring Lockheed more than $1 billion...
...rate, we have carefully monitored Carter's policytoward the Soviet Union and other powers. This week we undertake a major assessment of Carter's international performance to date. In accompanying articles we discuss secretary of State Cyrus Vance and how he fits in to the mechanism that shape foreign policy, and we report the ideas of National Security Adviser Zbigmew Brzezinski...
...what many view as a world grown even more hostile since Carter took office. He reckons that sharp shifts in U.S. policy must inevitably shake things up for a time. The changes are necessary, he argues, because "an old-world order is coming to an end and the shape of a new world community is yet to be defined." The old order, based largely on military power and nationalism, is giving way to "a technetronic age" in which there will be increasing emphasis on economic development and social justice. The old East-West ideological struggle will wane in importance...
...writing a book on the evolution of ethics in relation to sociobiology. A specialist in the social insects, he wrote The Insect Societies (1971), then put in three years of 90-hour weeks working on his sociobiology text. Says he: "I wanted to synthesize and draw the boundaries to shape sociobiology into a discipline...