Word: viewpoints
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Within our zone of vital interests, clearly there are some important differences in the character of U.S. commitments and obviously in the attitudes of the other governments. A country may be crucially situated, from the U.S. strategic viewpoint, and it may be thoroughly congenial, i.e., democratic in its ideology, and still not particularly receptive to any sort of leadership from the United States-witness France, or for that matter, Canada...
...predictable viewpoint, which shall be ascribed to the Leontiefs and the Galbraiths, is that the current crisis proves freedom as failed. Supposedly the Great Depression proved the instability of the laissez-faire free market. The policy prescriptions of Keynesian economics "saved capitalism," along with the interventions of the New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier an Great Society programs, establishing the mixed economy...
...feminist who by trial and error has created the male as well as the female ego." The covers on her albums are kind of like that too: flowers and nature scenes adorn them and she's made to appear especially innocent, as if she had to protect the native viewpoint in her songs...
...From Sadat's viewpoint, the big problem was Israel's insistence upon particular agreements concerning nonbelligerency, which, curiously, reminded one Western-schooled Egyptian diplomat of a cheeseburger. "Supposing," he told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in a kind of Big Mac analysis, "that you ask me for a cheeseburger and I flatly refuse to give it to you. You then say, 'O.K., don't give me the cheeseburger. But at least give me the bun. And perhaps the mustard and the cheese and the onion-and don't forget the meat.' That is how Israel...
...earth's surface bump, jostle and sometimes slide underneath each other, carrying the continents along with them. This activity often arouses the earth's volcanoes, most of which lie near plate boundaries. The core evidence discovered by Kennett and Thunell has given further weight to a viewpoint shared by an increasing number of scientists: that all major changes occurring in or above the earth-including variations in climate-are closely interrelated and must always be considered as part of a chain of global events...