Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...short, one of the oldest of axioms about Soviet Russia remains very much in force: Moscow will move in anywhere it can find an opening, provided the risks are not too great. Showing symptoms of an alarmist view of Soviet intentions, the U.S. reacted strongly last week to the possible establishment of a Soviet submarine-servicing base in Cuba, a development that has been watched for months. A White House official said that the U.S. views the base "with utmost seriousness" and "at the right moment will take the action that seems indicated." Such tough language seemed to be dictated...
Nixon ordered that neither his time nor his mind was to be cluttered with the details of how many ships should go where. "It is very important to take the long view," he cautioned. "That has to be conveyed to everybody. I am not going to get bogged down in details. Look down the road. I want to pound that into the whole bureaucracy...
...experts returned to the drawing board, but their revisions still would permit instances in which a four-person family headed by a woman could receive more in federal assistance than she would be likely to earn. Further, FAP's so-called work incentives are inadequate in the view of all committee members. It would be possible for an FAP family to increase its earnings by $1,000 and realize as little as a $200 gain in actual income-because the $1,000 increase would cut off food stamps and other benefits...
...accomplished Heinlein readers do not usually take offense at those of his books which propound political philosophies contrary to everything the reader believes; for we know that, if we but wait long enough, he will write another book in which he will ardently defend exactly the opposite point of view. It is a measure of the man's incredible philosophical wishy-washiness that one of his novels, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, is one of the guiding tracts of the YAF, while Stranger In A Strange Land (his greatest, I might add) has helped inspire thousands of acid-freaks...
...Board of Overseers also adopted the view of the Committee on Governance that the changes regarding students eligibility on disciplinary committees and the delegation of a faculty's power to dismiss or expel students be considered experimental...