Department of Defense Appropriations for ..., Μέρος 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 |
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ADDABBO Admiral RICKOVER advance procurement aircraft carriers American Armed Services Committee Bainbridge believe budget build capability carrier task force Chief of Naval civilian claims CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction contract contractors conventional cost Cost Accounting Standards cruise missile submarine damage decisions Defense Department defense procurement Department of Defense DLGN's fire fiscal year 1974 fleet FLOOD fuel funds Government high speed House Armed Services important kamikaze leaders LEIGHTON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS logistic MAHON ment military million Naval Academy Navy Navy's NROTC nuclear carrier nuclear frigates nuclear power nuclear propulsion nuclear ships nuclear task nuclear-powered officers percent personnel Polaris problem profit propulsion plant recommend refueling Renegotiation responsibility Russians Secretary of Defense shipbuilding shipyard SIKES situation Soviet staff Standard missile surface ships surface warships talk task group tion torpedo Trident Trident missile weapons systems World War II WYMAN
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Σελίδα 171 - Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.
Σελίδα 6 - control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
Σελίδα 100 - When foreign affairs were ruled by autocracies or oligarchies, the danger of war was in sinister purpose. When foreign affairs are ruled by democracies, the danger of war will be in mistaken beliefs. The world will be the gainer by the change, for, while there is no human way to prevent a king from having a bad heart, there is a human way to prevent a people from having an erroneous opinion. That way is to furnish the whole people...
Σελίδα 160 - Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens — I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people — America is the only idealistic Nation in the world.
Σελίδα 68 - The more amiability and esprit de corps there is among the members of a policy-making ingroup, the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and dehumanizing actions directed against outgroups.
Σελίδα 168 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Σελίδα 164 - There is a proverb about the difficulty of seeing the wood because of the trees. That difficulty is exactly the point which I am enforcing. The problem of education is to make the pupil see the wood by means of the trees.
Σελίδα 171 - ... in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, the old friends who are never seen with new faces; who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.
Σελίδα 157 - We have to defend the country against mediocrity, mediocrity of souls, mediocrity of ideas, mediocrity of action. We must also fight against it in ourselves." It is understandable that Americans should be cautious about excessive emphasis upon the difference in native capacity between one individual and another. Enemies of democracy have often cited the unequal capacities of men as justification for political and social philosophies which violate our most deeply...
Σελίδα 105 - Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intelligence of an unwieldy, stupid, and violent animal. The bigger the organization, the more unavoidable is its immorality and blind stupidity (Senatus bestia, senatores boni viri).