Word: partial
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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There are two prevailing schools of thought about the outcome of this battle. One, the Chicken Little crowd, is convinced that the roof is falling in and that all the controls and ordinances will only slow the collapse, perhaps allowing a little creative planning and partial coping. The others, fewer in number, think perhaps the status quo can be retained, that Cambridge may remain an anomalous mix of the wealthy and the poor, factory worker and professor...
...Watergate America: "Throughout the solemn unfolding of the American miracle, men have noticed this remarkable phenomenon: what at the moment seems to be nothing more than the random rise and fall of men and ideas, false starts and sudden brainstorms, erratic bursts of passion and apathy, brief setbacks and partial victories, is later discovered to be-in the light of America's gradual unveiling as the New Athens, New Rome and New Jerusalem all in one -an inevitable sequence of interlocking events, a divine code...
...tente means the relaxation of tensions between nations. By that definition, the détente era in Soviet-American relations is over. Since Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan in December, Washington's policy toward Moscow has been almost exclusively punitive: a boycott of the Olympics, a partial embargo on grain sales, tightened restrictions on high-technology exports. The SALT II treaty that Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed a year ago this week may die on the Senate shelf. After more than a month in office, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has yet to meet with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Muskie...
Pirie: To go back to a partial conscript system leads to unending pain. It won't solve any of the problems that we are talking about. I don't think that it will solve the problem of [disproportionate racial] representation or the problem of numbers. I don't think there is any way that you can conscript for quality. So you would go through a wrenching political upheaval to yield a manpower system that would have as many or more problems than the present one has. This is a way of saying that I prefer the present...
...disenchantment-that has gripped Spain in the past year. The Suárez government, after shepherding the country through a euphoric and successful post-Franco transition, has seemed increasingly bogged down by the intractable problems of 16% inflation, 10% unemployment and the stubborn wave of separatist terrorism. The partial autonomy recently granted to the provinces of Catalonia and the Basque country has similarly failed to diminish their regional resentment against Madrid. Stung by his setbacks, Suárez withdrew into his Moncloa Palace. Spaniards generally lost heart, wondering if democracy meant stagnation and fearing the alternatives of the political extremes...