Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk turned to East-West trade, with Khrushchev blandly insisting that the Soviet Union does not use trade as a political weapon. A few nights before, when a second-string Russian bureaucrat denied that the Russians attach strings to their trade offers, Humphrey retorted: Why, I've just come from a country [Finland] where [trade] not only has strings; it's a political noose." Humphrey asked Khrushchev for specific facts began pressing his own statistics on Khrushchev, who shrugged: "I am not expert and there are details I am not familiar with. He promised to bring in Trade...
...intertwined combination of the military, the businessmen, and the politicians. Military and businessmen partake of the "military metaphysic" for reasons of self-interest, claims Mills, for the politicians, it "provides a cover under which they can abdicate the perils of innovative leadership; it provides a cover for their use of military bureaucrats--the only large pool of professional civil servants available...
This allows for some interesting contrapuntal effects when two areas are lit and two actions go on simultaneously, and it shows that the authors had an eye towards maximum use of the resources of the stage. On the other hand, these effects are difficult to follow in the reading, and it must be difficult in the theatre to keep the eye and the attention focused in two directions at the same time...
Speaking to the Social Relations Graduate Colloquium on "Conformism, Protestantism, and the Current Religious Resurgence," Tillich declared that ambiguity in the resurgence was reflected by the "use" of religion "as a tool rather than as a means of understanding...
...subject to approval of President Pusey and Dean Bundy. The Master's requests have not been released, but it is known that such projects as rooms for dining and other purposes are being considered. Some Masters have formed student committees to work with their staff members in determining a use for the money...