Word: weaknessness
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Autumn Leaves. Taking note of the growing disquiet, newly appointed United Nations Ambassador George Ball warned in a tough speech that it would be "a mistake to expect that anything can be gained by unilateral concessions, or that a show of weakness will make a negotiation go more swiftly, or...
As the film develops, the workers succumb not through ideological but moral weakness: slogans aside, they hold bourgeois values. At the outset Carlos, cigarette dangling from his proletarian lip, tells his working class lover, "Someday I'll make it big...I want the cake, not just the crumbs." Twenty minutes...
U.S. diplomats will also have to overcome an alarming tendency to apply totally different standards to Communist and American actions. President Johnson warned against interpreting the bombing curtailment as a sign of weakness, but U.S. officials immediately called North Vietnam's acceptance of Paris a retreat. U.S. military men justify...
And Stability. Hanging over the bright prospects of peacetime business are the same clouds that trouble the economy in war: inflation and the imbalance of payments. "Our first priority must be to preserve the integrity of the dollar," warned President Rudolph Peterson of the Bank of America last week. "If...
Princeton, which won the Ivy title last year, has a 0-5-1 record through its early contests. But the poor record reflects the caliber of the opposition more than Tiger weakness. All the Princeton games were against nationally-ranked teams. The one tie was with NCAA co-champion Maryland...