Word: easiest
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...well be, on the other hand, that Nixon is fully aware of the importance of Watergate but is following some strategy all his own. According to the theory that he outlined in his 1962 book Six Crises: "The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision-whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment...
...Watergate speech was disconcertingly ambivalent. Nixon resorted to an odd and habitual rhetorical device, explaining?as he often has done in his past speeches on Viet Nam?that he was rejecting "the easiest course" and pursuing the more difficult one. In this case, "the easiest course would be for me to blame those to whom I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign." Placing the entire blame on subordinates, however, would not have been the easier course?because it would not have washed. To avoid accepting responsibility for the actions of so many men acting in his name would have...
...week published a fuel-economy rundown on every 1973 auto, foreign or domestic, sold in the U.S. The results were painfully predictable: gas mileage drops with every pound of weight and power accessory. Says Eric Stork, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mobile Source Air Pollution Control: "Far and away the easiest way of reducing fuel consumption is to drive smaller and lighter cars and use less air conditioning...
Francis E. Guiney, director of BCH, said Tuesday that pediatrics was one of the easiest places to begin bed capacity reduction since only about 70 per cent of the inpatient facilities of that service are presently utilized...
What could bring a one-to-one policy? A strong piece of national legislation would be the easiest and, of course, the least likely route. Far more telling, though, will be pressure by the Harvard community. The most effective tactic will be for concerned students and alumni to make all pledged contributions contingent on the adoption of equal admissions...