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  • moved from a policy of conquest to one of containment. Edward's military problems, however, were on two fronts; the challenge from the French ...
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  • just after the stalemated Korean War, and containment seemed better than a confrontation with an uncertain outcome. He believed that 'detente ...
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  • of the Soviet dissidents, and the containment of their opinions. Indeed, this obsession with "ideological subversion" only increased ...
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  • The high visibility of the reactor's containment building in a densely populated area has caused some controversy, Loose Nukes: A Special Report ...
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  • * Gaddis, John Lewis. 1982. Strategies of containment: a critical appraisal of postwar American national security policy. New York, NY: Oxford ...
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  • mostly favoring slavery's containment, to a far more serious opposition to the institution, producing the Radical Republican and abolitionist ...
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  • the U.S. government for which he worked put the containment of the Soviet Union above everything else. The fact that his space station--if armed with ...
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  • discuss the worsening problem in Vietnam and the containment of communism in the region. Likewise, President Marcos initiated, together with the ...
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  • problem was contained rather than solved, and containment repeatedly broke down in disorder in 1968, 1981, 1989, and 1998–1999. A controversial ...
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  • departed from the long-held policy of containment toward the Soviet Union. In its place, Carter promoted a foreign policy that placed human rights ...
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  • is noted for a policy shift from communist containment to direct, though diplomatic, confrontation with the Soviet Union, accompanied by dramatically ...
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  • The well's operator, BP, initiated a containment and cleanup plan, and began drilling two relief wells intended to stop the flow. Obama visited ...
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  • States; all these depended upon Martel's containment of Islam from expanding into Europe while the Caliphate was unified and able to mount such ...
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  • Moscow and Beijing. The Cold War paradigms of containment and the domino theory were in their heyday and framed many of the arguments on the issue of ...
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  • include use in laboratories as containment for high pressure experiments (see diamond anvil), high-performance bearings, and limited use in specialized ...
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  • problem was contained rather than solved, and containment repeatedly broke down in disorder in 1968, 1981, 1989, and 1998–99. In 1989, Ibrahim ...
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