Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Babbitt said social Darwinism has become "afact of life," and that concentration on financialcompetitiveness has led to too much emphasis onshort-term goals...
...have been immense on both sides, and in the end this may be a Pyrrhic "victory" for the U.S. The money which the Pentagon has consumed coupled with general American consumerism, has left little for the levels of investment needed to maintain American economic--and thus, over the long term, diplomatic and military--hegemony...
...short, the rise of the new era in East-West relations is not due to some new-found good intentions in the Kremlin but rather to the fact that Gorbachey sought a solution to problems--created by long-term American post-war policies--immediately besetting the Soviet Union...
...both superpowers. The Soviets have already realized that their wounds are too serious to ignore much longer, and seem to have beaten an unwanted but tactical retreat. The United States, while maintaining a vigilant attitude, should now pay attention to its own different wounds--a fatal lack of long-term economic, industrial and human investments--before it is too late. Indeed, it may already...
...Jerusalem could no longer ignore the P.L.O. The intelligence assessment came a fortnight after a critical report from the prestigious Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. In a study sponsored by the American Jewish Congress, the think tank concluded that none of the long-term peace options that either Shamir or the Palestinian leadership considers acceptable have any chance to succeed. The scholars argued that moving beyond the status quo requires a long process of mutual accommodation starting with direct talks with the P.L.O. and possibly ending with creation of a circumscribed Palestinian state...