Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Soviet Union - ending all arms control negotiations, for example - and others who want a more moderate approach. Haig will have to find some way of dampening the dissension if the disputants wind up in second- and third-echelon jobs at State...
...Military Power. The best way to approach military power is to conceive of it in its essential role as guarantor of diplomatic success. A nation whose military power is mediocre will inevitably see its influence and its diplomatic effectiveness seriously diminished. Only a credible balance of military power, linked to a vigorous foreign policy, can ensure peace and stability...
...week's meeting about how much time the incoming Administration will have to return the economy to longterm, noninflationary growth. While board Republicans argued that the Reagan strategy of deep cuts in both taxes and Government spending is crucial to economic recovery, Democrats on the board considered the approach both impractical and politically naive. They feel that it could wind up actually quickening the tempo of economic upheaval and causing even more inflation...
...TIME board last week split sharply over whether that new approach is working, and there was also disagreement about whether Volcker will continue to pursue it in the new Administration taking office next month. Democrat Eckstein wondered about how many more times the Fed will feel compelled to "beat the economy about the head" before people believe that the bank is serious about controlling the money supply. Eckstein jokingly asked whether the Federal Reserve's vacillating policy of first tight money and then loose money was creating "the six-month business cycle," alternating between boom and bust...
...nettled by untimely yakking does not imply the advocacy of universal silence. A rigorous discipline, silence is practiced by certain monks and others who believe that it heightens the soul's capacity to approach God. For ordinary people, a bit of silence may occasionally seem golden, but what they mostly need is the conversation that keeps them close to others. Those who do not get enough talk tend to wither in spirit...