Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That reflects what many regard as the Helsinki accord's main value: as a yardstick for measuring East-West relations, and thus part of the process of refining them. The accord's clearest failing has been its inability to bring East and West any closer to reducing or limiting their levels of armaments. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, for example, have been almost completely deadlocked since President Gerald Ford and Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev met at Vladivostock in November 1974. There also has been little progress in the three-year-old Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR...
...European Economic] Community can do is lead its member states toward satisfactory and successful financial, economic and social security measures. Germany has already undertaken rather great financial sacrifices for the benefit of Europe as a whole, and we are also willing to do this in the future. By any yardstick, Germany's economic performance has been rather good. We have also maintained great confidence in the stability of the social structure. I would like to point out that, unlike other European countries, the Communist groups or parties can expect no gain from our national elections. You will need...
Lipset and Ladd observe in the Chronicle of Higher Education that they cannot apply the same yardstick to the entire population-highly educated voters tend to be much more fixed and consistent than other groups in their beliefs. But, says Lipset, "If I were a Democratic precinct worker and wanted to get people to the polls who are sympathetic to my candidate, I'd pick houses with foreign cars in front...
...measure of a person's importance is the distance between the radiator and his statue in Madame Tussaud's wax museum. Last week Lord Snowdon, returning to London for the first time since the announcement of his separation from Princess Margaret, discovered another yardstick. His Tussaud statue has not been melted. But it has been carted up to a storeroom above the exhibition hall. Tony will have some company in exile. Among his companions in the closet: former President Richard Nixon, who was removed from view after his resignation...
Those who view America's decision not to fight in Angola as cowardice or lack of commitment are those who persist in measuring-greatness with a military yardstick. For once we have exhibited the courage, the moral strength to keep ourselves out of a conflict in which we have no legitimate interest. Let the world judge who the imperialistic warmongers...