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...contribute to understanding the history of the period." One of those situations, he says evenly, is that he was the first commander since the Spanish-American War who "had to look over his shoulder and to reflect on the support of the home front as anything other than an asset." In other accounts of the war, says Westmoreland, "I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Viet Nam have been given the credit they deserve...
...rate for both is 5.85%, the tax is levied on the low-paid worker's entire income but on only the first $13,200 of the executive's salary. Yet many experts believe that a shift to general-revenue financing would rob the system of its biggest asset: the support it gets from workers who feel that their contributions are directly financing their own eventual retirement benefits...
...that Nixon can add to the formulation and conduct of American foreign policy for the next three years that can't be done better without him. For his remaining time in the White House, he has to be regarded as a foreign policy problem, not a foreign policy asset...
Comstock was often asked to speak because of her unusually rich and persuasive voice. This gift was a great asset when she became the first president of the American Association of University Women. She served also as a member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement and as a delegate to the Peking meeting of the Institute of Pacific Relations. All who were fortunate enough to work with her will remember her as the essence of integrity, devoted to truth and justice, a beloved companion with rare gifts of head and heart...
ACCORDING TO business school theory, U.S. business becomes an asset to foreign countries by contributing technical knowledge, training, new equipment, and capital. Latin American countries, however, can only be hurt by U.S. investment...