Word: extention
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...adviser, that the president received too little input from people with enough courage to present to him more accurate, if pessimistic, assessments of his policies. Two decades later, Barnet explores the methods of American leadership and the reasons they fail to cope with the "politics of scarcity," revealing the extent to which manipulation of the world's natural resources influences our lives, in his latest book, The Lean Years...
...puts pressure on the president to reduce its obligations to the domestic market, and he in turn pulls the necessary strings in Washington to allow the company to sell where it can reap the greatest profits. The American government, Barnet writes, is controlled by businesses to a much greater extent than the public wants to believe...
...movement" for having as "their main purpose the raising of the nuclear issue in the minds of the public." On May 24th, the handbook continues, "our success will not be measured in terms of symbolic value, media impact, nor numbers of arrests. Our success will be apparent by the extent we can effectively, non-violently, and collectively block construction at Seabrook..." That goal selfishly risks the future of the anti-nuclear movement and other campaigns for change. Though the organizers express a commitment to building "a direct action movement against nuclear power and the social, economic and political systems that...
...evidently would not have appointed him. The new Secretary is not as committed as was his predecessor to policies that have now visibly failed. In the manner of the President, Senator Muskie experienced a sense of "betrayal" over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. His self-characterization indicates, however, the extent to which he was committed, along with President Carter and Secretary Vance, to detente with the Soviet Union...
Statistics from the report also indicate that there is much less separatism on campus than many committee members expected to find and than students perceive. The survey shows that "the extent of interracial interaction at Harvard is substantial indeed, particularly in classes, meals and groups of friends." Minorities responding to the questionnaire said they had as many close white friends as close minority friends. About 75 per cent of minority undergraduates and 40 per cent of white undergraduates said they had dated interracially, and a substantial number of minority and white students, 80 and 40 per cent respectively, had roomed...