Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public scrutiny. It is indeed a unique event that a modern nation is exhaustively examining one of its chief weapons of defense for all the world to see?including its adversaries. Yet this unprecedented exposure of the Central Intelligence Agency is perhaps the inevitable result of attacks on a vast bureaucracy that operated too long out of the public eye. America's premier defense agency has been under intense fire both at home and abroad for violating what many critics felt were proper standards of international conduct...
...Third World forces has put an additional burden on American intelligence. Most of the new nations have authoritarian regimes that do not freely supply the kind of political and economic information that is routine in the West. If the U.S. expects to stay abreast of developments in these vast areas of the globe, it needs a sophisticated and sensitive intelligence apparatus. Says a former deputy director of the CIA: "Totalitarian countries can use naked power; an open society has to depend on its wits." On top of the normal tensions of national rivalry, there is now the added danger...
Lasch seems to imply that the triumph of social science effectively furthered the aims of self-appointed masters of social control. He writes of the socialization of production that "the industrialists...kept to themselves the knowledge of the process as a whole," while creating the vast armies of managers and labor. The socialization of reproduction, argues Lasch, amounted to a deliberate attempt to reduce parents "in the same way" to a passive dependence on a master...
...CHUL election procedure, however would require Faculty legislation. Few members of the convention say they want the new government to assume responsibilities of CRR or the ad board. But regardless of what the convention members think will be the eventual fate of the existing student-Faculty committees, the vast majority of them are careful to emphasize the importance of proving to students, the Faculty and the administration that the new government will be "reasonable" and "pragmatic...
...great American sport is, and he will probably give one of three answers: football, baseball or basketball. In each case he would be wrong. The true national sport is the law, and the contest Americans love best is the one in the courtroom, where lives are at stake and vast sums can be won or lost on a lawyer's forward motion...