Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with better understanding of opposing points of view." Khrushchev, said Herter, had said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard to believe after the years of baffling doubletalk. Yet I believe that on certain fundamentals we can find a common language because we have a common interest. That interest lies simply in the basic will to survive, shared by free men and Communists alike...
...evening before, hides it somewhere in the stacks or on a desk during the day, and returns briefly in the evening to do the reading. As a result, book turn-over in Lamont is reduced far below optimum levels. By 10 in the morning, all copies of a certain reserve book may be circulating in the library, although none of them...
...also criticized certain aspects of what he called "Charles de Gaulle's policy of grandeur," in which the French President is attempting to make his country a world power. He attributed the recent atomic bomb tests in that country to this effort, but pointed out that France had so little money compared to the United States or Russia that even the idea of matching them on a nuclear scale was "absurd...
...addition, the Pusey letter included certain specific proposals with regard to future exchange projects and suggestions concerning the financial arrangements of such programs...
With the project separated into 44 main components and thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle...