Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both maneuvers have been long scheduled. But the importance and publicity given them pointed up a troubling trend of stress between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Behind the trend are two basic elements: Russia's vigorous activity in the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, and a growing conviction in the White House that Moscow is deliberately testing President Nixon's-and the nation's-mettle. In the Administration's view, the Kremlin is probing everywhere, seeing how far it can get at a moment when the U.S. is intent on drastically reducing...
...task all the more urgent. We must disapprove of the indiscriminate character of some of the terrorism that has taken place, and strongly oppose tendencies to constitute terrorism as the core of the movement. Nevertheless, whatever our political disagreements with terrorists-and those disagreements are profound-we mest stress the legitimacy and necessity of violence against imperialism in all of its institutional forms...
...such a retrenchment is seen as impelled by outside powers or internal dissent. That could be taken as a sign of weakness. Increasingly concerned that the Soviet Union and others may hold just such a view of the U.S. today, Richard Nixon last week used his European trip to stress U.S. strength...
...N.A.B.'s narrative passages are the major beneficiaries of the decision to stress clarity over resonance. Douay...
...September hot spell-could bring one of the world's largest electric systems so close to total blowout. Public utility companies, which have encouraged customers to buy more appliances to consume more power, now plead that they must build more power plants to meet the increased need. Conservationists stress that more power plants will increasingly foul the already poisonous air. Partly because of the bad city air, architects design buildings with windows permanently closed. Thus massive air-conditioning systems must dangerously draw ever heavier loads of power-without, however, filtering out most of the pollutants. Unless the course along...