Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...economist and a veteran of the International Monetary Fund, was moved to question the relevance of balance of payments figures in determining whether Washington should continue restricting investment overseas. Said Birnbaum: "The way that the rest of the world regards the U.S. in a very broad economic and political context provides the true test for the dollar." The situation could change rapidly if foreigners lost confidence in the U.S. and suddenly started cashing in their dollars for U.S. bullion. But for now, the dollar is better than gold...
...standard, "totalitarian" approach to news only showers a "layer of soot" on events, Tarter said. The Phoenix is not equipped to cover all the news, anyway. But it tries to make up for this with in-depth articles which point up a particular trend or provide a historical context for the news...
...term did not die with Stevenson's loss of the election. Both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson used the phrase while in office, but in a casual, non-policy-making context. With its emergence as a central theme in Nixon's State of the Union speech, however. Nixon appears on the verge of making "the quality of life" his Great Society pledge...
There are obvious political advantages to Nixons identifying his. Administration and his party with the concept of improving the quality of American life. There is no more practical goal for any President. But the term suggests far more than Nixon's limited context allows. Granted that ecological concerns are of the highest urgency, only a case of tunnel vision would confine "quality" to anti-pollution measures. If "the quality of life" can actually become a goal that the government and the people consider primary, then nothing short of a reordering of national priorities is required-and political liberties are high...
Peter Camejo and his friends are not about to have that desire satisfied. They have divorced the war from the political context that bred it, held it up as an independent, unbearable monstrosity, and have asked all those who agree to come out once again in April to say so. They have willingly cast aside the only group with the power to do more than march off their hatred...