Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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European rebuttals to Kissinger's alarm bell demonstrated how strategic worries continue to look different from each side of the Atlantic. "We never thought you [the U.S.] reached to the sky," countered British Political Economist Andrew Shonfield. "And the fact that you now recognize that you don't, and that you also look back nostalgically to the moment you thought that you did, impresses you perhaps more than it impresses us." Added British Strategic Expert Laurence Martin: "I would prefer to say not that deterrence has collapsed, but that certain illusions which were perhaps justified in the days...
...computerized statement to every employee listing each of his benefits, such as retirement and hospitalization. "That statement helped people know Harvard does care, even though it's a big place. We got literally hundreds of responses, and all but one were favorable. One woman wrote in to say she thought we should not be wasting money on something so trivial," Cantor says...
...example, late May, a group of women within the department complained that they were not being treated professionally by the overwhelmingly male force. Chafin says he held a meeting with a core group of the staff to correct the situation immediately because, he says, "I thought it was an extremely serious issue...
Wilson's enthusiasm in the biology labs on Oxford St. so far has not proved infectious. "It hasn't exactly caught fire with the biologists or biochemists," Wilson notes with regret. "Frankly, they haven't given it much thought...
...avoid such inflated prose and is unsure how such notions apply to the humanities, or for that matter what intellectual discourse even means. But she believes she may have unintentionally conformed to the report's exhortation by "familiarizing students with two methodologies: historical and literary." Tatar shrugs. "I always thought the point of education in general was to teach people to think critically. If you want to call that intellectual discourse, then I guess that is what I am doing...