Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...find fault with, without discovering a single effort to clarify, to analyze, to explain or honestly to represent. Always they insinuate, distort, accuse, their aim being not to identify and correct real abuses, but always rather by crying alarm intentionally to arouse and inflame passions in order to build support for "nonnegotiable demands," and by this means, to enlarge their following and enhance their power. Clearly the old McCarthy technique is at work again, but this time-it is a sorrow to have to acknowledge it-by our own, and in our midst...
...stormy negotiating session which followed, Bennett told the group that the Treeland site was "too valuable to support practical low-income housing." He said that Harvard was tentatively planning to use the site instead for student housing, and that the University would build resident housing elsewhere in Riverside...
These strategies reflect two basic dicta of U. S. foreign policy, anti-communism and support for the expansion of capitalist relations. The recommendations of the paper are built upon them. Huntington proposes that the U. S. concentrate on the structure of the political institutions and electoral mechanisms that will be developed: "The U. S. can play a major role in shaping rules of the game through its negotiations with Hanoi and the NLF and through advice...
Finally, Huntington lists additional means whereby the U. S. can ensure the outcome it desires. Among these are support of populist non-communist leaders that undercut NLF support (Peron and Rojas Pinilla are cited as examples), U. S. control over national media, and the use of bribes and "perk-barrel" projects...
...sources of economic surplus generated out of specific enterprises and applied to the stabilization of the system as a whole, are the mechanism through which academia is most thoroughly adapted to the purposes of those who control policy. The Ford Foundation, for example, is the main source of support for 56 per cent of the approximately 200 university foreign affairs centers in the U. S. It has been a major source for centers at Columbia. Chicago, Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Harvard, Indiana, MIT, Michigan State, Stanford, and Wisconsin...