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That question has arisen only in the past few years, as the U.S.S.R. has caught up with the U.S. in the accumulation of weapons that would be used if the two countries ever went to war with each other. From Moscow's viewpoint, the question was given particular force by the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when John Kennedy faced down Nikita Khrushchev and forced him to remove Soviet rockets from the island. A relieved Dean Rusk, then Secretary of State, added a memorable phrase to the annals of diplomacy when he commented at the time: "We were eyeball...
...modernity. It declared that all visual experience could be set forth as a shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting's unconscious answer to the theory of relativity or to the principles of narrative that would emerge in Proust or Joyce. The supremacy of the fixed viewpoint, embodied for 500 years in Renaissance perspective, was challenged by the new mode of describing space that Picasso and Braque had developed in a supreme effort of teamwork...
...issues as it struggles to upgrade the quality of cars and to replace its gas guzzlers with a new generation of fuel-efficient models. Moreover, Eraser's new post could prove a trail blazer for management-labor relations in other American industries, ensuring that the worker's viewpoint gets an adequate hearing at executive levels. Says he: "Maybe the adversary relationship is precisely what is wrong with the American labor movement." In any case, Eraser's trial run in Chrysler's red brick headquarters in Highland Park, Mich., will certainly have an impact far beyond that...
Texas's system of choosing one textbook for all state public schools gives that state's textbook selection committee disproportionate influence on the views presented in the nation's history textbooks, Fitzgerald said, adding that publishers often skew history accounts to a "Texas viewpoint." Texas has been the site of divisive battles over textbook selection in recent years...
...investment decisions might invite class-action suits by members pursuing a narrower interpretation of the law. Rifkin and Barber suggest that unions could continue to maximize returns by confining their investments to companies with desirable labor policies within the Fortune 500. ERISA administrator Ian Lanoff appears sympathetic to this viewpoint...