Word: interpreted
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...much power should a President have to commit the U.S. overseas? The answer is less than clear. Most Presidents, afraid that too many restrictions would tie their hands in relations with foreign governments, interpret their mandate as broadly as possible. As a result of the nation's experience in Viet Nam, however, there is a move in Congress to narrow the presidential reach. Indeed, Idaho's Senator Frank Church has gone so far as to warn that U.S. presidential power is leading toward "Cae-sarism." "The Roman Caesars," he told his colleagues recently, "did not spring full blown...
...suggested Columnist Tony Clifton in the Sunday Times of London, might a Russian reporter with a conspiratorial imagination interpret recent events in Britain. Clifton was taking a puckish poke at Kremlinologists in the West. Suspicious by trade, they have been agog with speculation and wild surmise about the deaths of twelve Russian generals within a recent 17-day period...
...GREEN shares Finch's belief that federal interference will only further tie the hands of college administrators trying to deal with disorder. She expressed the opinion that SDS will interpret measures like Harsha's as a challenge to prolong confrontations...
...eyes are the source of endless black-white misunderstanding. In the presence of elders or superiors, American Negroes have long averted their eyes, just as blacks are accustomed to do in West Africa. Nonetheless, whites still interpret such eye aversion as an insult or a token of inattention. Pondering the implications of eye aversion, Linguistic Anthropologist Edward T. Hall says: "How often has a polite black schoolchild cast his eyes downward as a sign of respect, and failed to meet a teacher's eye when questioned? How many teachers have thought students were 'tuned out' because they...
They do help to relate the university to the outside world, to protect it, to interpret it, and to try to introduce into the university concerns from the outside world of which there should be an awareness inside...