Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former director of the Du Pont Company, was appointed to the position in 1974 and was to remain until June 30, 1977. But in a statement issued last week, Brimmer said he was leaving to establish an economic and financial consulting firm in Washington, D.C., as an "outgrowth" of some of his outside activities...
...project is an outgrowth of an attempt to reform Afro. Kenneth W. Vidato '77, president of Afro, is participating in the organization of the association...
...relative quiescence, French students are once again mobilized in opposition to the French government over the future of their universities. Last week, more than 100,000 students all over France participated in demonstrations against the Giscard d' Estaing government's proposed reform of higher education. These demonstrations--the outgrowth of a campaign against the reform that has intensified steadily since its promulgation last February--began a nationwide university general strike and a week of conference and teach...
...concluding chapter, "Conservative Paradoxes", Diggins remarks that "In Nixon's heralded detente with Russia and China, one sees that a politician nurtured on McCarthyism can be anti-communist without being anti-totalitarian." Is Diggins saying that Russia and China are totalitarian but not Communist? That detente is an outgrowth of McCarthyism? That Nixon should be regarded as a serious conservative intellectual? The muddled logic and vague implications make it hard to follow Diggins' drift...
...organization is an outgrowth of a deepening unease and a new political awareness among the country's 22,000 officers. The military men are split on what their role should be in the nation's life. Most generals are veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Staunch Franquistas, they want to maintain the boot-clicking discipline of the old regime and may well demand severely repressive measures if social disorder continues. Many of the junior officers have basically been apolitical-docile career men satisfied to lend nominal support to the status quo. But some are beginning to question that...