Word: unclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attain this or any other goal. From such pressures a healthy government will know how to derive nourishment for clear, strong, decisive policymaking. The struggles related in The Hydrogen Bomb took place in a Government (and in a nation) that was confused about its own strategic situation and unclear about its aims. A determined pressure group can play havoc in such a situation. To relate the story of how one such pressure group almost did, is not to set up a conflict of science v. the state. It is to warn that feeble top leadership can lead even the most...
...began is unclear; why is plain. The owners of the world's newest, biggest jute mill at Narayanganj, East Pakistan, pampered their imported West Pakistan workers, gave them better jobs and a higher wage scale than the East Pakistan Bengalis. On payday, when the West Paks were lording it over the Bengalis, the atmosphere was tense. According to one version, a West Pakistani fireman reproved a Bengali teastall keeper for allowing the flames to burn too high in his oven. The Bengali took offense, and when a factory watchman intervened, another Bengali stabbed the watchman...
...Europe, had made progress in the essential matter of reaching agreement with Britain and France on the basic position of the three Western powers (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the trip left him no time to brief Congress, which felt that the U.S. position on the Far East was unclear. Capitol Hill wanted more information. The uneasiness was intensified by the course of the war in Indo-China. If the French position continued to get worse, what was the U.S. going to do about...
...years ago James B. Conant found himself criticized severely for his lack of faith in the economic potentialities of unclear energy. It was then held in congressional circles that a scientist so gloomy as to envisage the abandonment of all unclear power station experiments by 1970, was probably unfit to help shape the policies...
...eight, an anthropologist, declared that the university's standards for promotion are unclear. "In the past, as many full professors as were considered worthy were appointed," he stated. "Because of the financial problems created by overcrowding, this can no longer be the case . . . now I don't know what the case...