Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orchestration of the China move may be a textbook model for Carter as he picks his way through the difficult problems of the following months. While the details of the inner secret were known by only a few men, there were other layers of contact. The China experts in the State Department were asked to work out "hypothetical problems" that turned out to be not so hypothetical. And then key members of Congress were talked to in a general way about the same issues. Thus the Government "knew" without really knowing, and at the center the President moved along...
...Carter's top economists, what has happened is a textbook case of basic decisions emerging from a confluence of forces. He believes that not only did the economic figures push the President into action, but it suddenly became clear that Carter's political survival depended on an all-out effort to control inflation...
...meetings was more constructive than the assignment of blame to any one agency or even to any one Administration: ever since the 1960s, when Britain was withdrawing from east of the Suez and the Shah proclaimed himself the guardian of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.Iranian connection has been a textbook case of what diplomats call "clientitis"-the fallacy of mistaking an ally's interests for one's own. The U.S. failed to see that the Shah was weak simply because it had long been a principle of policy, and therefore an article of faith, that the Shah must...
...came in to tell him about the mistakes he was making in his books," said Kaplan, who today has branches in Switzerland, Toronto and San Juan. Kaplan says that Barron finally told him to put up or shut up, and gave him his first chance at writing a textbook...
...April, the Coop hopes to expand into the shopping mall that will be built on the site formerly occupied by F.W. Woolworth's, Zum Zum's and Chez Dreyfus. The four-story complex will contain two restaurants and four or five retail stores, including the Harvard Book Store's textbook, used paperback and law book outlets...