Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military approach with long-term goals. He has sought to explain the new reality that although America is still the world's greatest economic power and possesses massive military strength, "we no longer enjoy meaningful nuclear supremacy." For Kissinger, this has meant the imperative of survival: building a process of negotiation and the policy of detente. It has meant playing the Russians against the Chinese while never admitting he was engaging in such a dangerous game...
...contemplate what would become of Europe if we did not solve the problems together. The crowded political center would probably not hold, people would turn in other directions for solutions and perhaps to other people with the wrong kind of big ideas. The important thing is that the crucial process of transatlantic consultation has started again. Your visit will lift the spirits enormously, and that is important in itself...
There was no way to be sure the vaccine would be safe. Vaccines are dangerous. Just as no one can predict how they will work, so no one can be sure they will cause no harm. To meet the fall deadline, manufacturers rushed through the required process of testing first in animals, then in small groups of humans, and finally in larger groups. There was no time to study long-term effects; the government recommended the vaccine to pregnant women, for instance, after less than nine months of testing. Parke-Davis manufactured and had to discard over 1.5 million defective...
...comrades. India's Prime Minister and the Moscow-leaning Communist Party of India (C.P.I.) were once the best of friends. In 1969, the C.P.I, helped keep Indira Gandhi in power after she drove the old guard out of the ruling Congress Party, splitting the party in the process. It supported her again when she declared a state of emergency in June 1975 and suspended many civil liberties. As a result, the C.P.I, was the only opposition party without a single member arrested...
...carry modern times, learned men of the Western world considered themselves members of a Republic of Letters, the worldwide community of men who read one another's books and exchanged opinions. Long after Gutenberg's printing press had begun the process of multiplying books and encouraging the growth of literature in the languages of the marketplace, the community remained a limited one. Thomas Jefferson, for example, considered himself a citizen of that worldwide community because of what he shared with literary and scientific colleagues in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands and elsewhere. When Jefferson offered the young...