Word: attack
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...Nixon's approach is also vulnerable to attack. His new Commission on School Finance will doubtless report -in a year or so-that many urban and rural districts are starving for dollars and that local revenue resources are inadequate. For a new Administration to request such a study is one thing; Nixon's took 14 months to decide that it needed to think the whole thing over...
LBERALISM is a fractured philosophy: that is one of the LBERALISM is a fractured philosophy: that is one of the most obvious and most important facts about the American political scene. Conservatives or just cool pragmatists in the Nixon Administration are attacking, one by one, the most cherished liberal beliefs and programs. Both the beliefs and the programs are suddenly seen to be vulnerable because their backers clung to them too uncritically, too long, without sufficient regard for changing conditions. Close to the heart of this attack, and in a sense symbolizing it, is Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the President...
...rights leaders made a highly emotional public reply, complaining that the memo was a "flagrant and shameful political document." It all depended on how the memo was read: it was, after all, written in the context of White House infighting; it could easily be interpreted as a slightly veiled attack on the conservatives in the Administration, especially John Mitchell: "At the risk of indiscretion, may I put it that lawyers are not professionally well-equipped to do much to prevent crime...
...Speakers Attack Bias Of Visiting Committee
...easier for a professor to sign a petition against Soviet imperialism than to attack Columbia's effort to colonize northern Manhattan: easier and less useful. It is not socially awkward for a professor to speak out against capital punishment; it may be awkward to oppose military grants for physicists who are colleagues." In short, "the faculty's dedication to anything beyond self-interest is surely questionable...