Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking. Promised Carter two weeks ago: "We will be cautious in not trying to have an unbalanced relationship [with] China and the Soviet Union." But his willingness to let Teng denounce the Soviets on U.S. soil and the use of the buzzword hegemony will now make that balancing act more difficult. Just how much was a subject of disagreement. A White House aide insisted that Carter believes there will be no effect on U.S.-Soviet relations...
...clearly trying to swim against a very strong human current. Moreover, they are out of touch with the problems of both leadership and the human dilemma. The problem has never been to get people to think about doing something. The difficulty has always been to get them to act. From time immemorial, leaders have found that one of the best ways, for good or ill, is to say, "Rally round the slo gan, folks." It is not time for a change...
...Asked if he would continue to lead the agency in a new direction, David Freeman said no, that he would restore the T.V.A.'s traditional role as a laboratory for the testing of new ideas. Freeman has not hesitated to use the broad authority granted directors in the 1933 Act to carry out his goals...
Hayward sticked aside seven or eight Harvard chances in the early going before Cornell got its act together at 4:44. Nethery (that man again) hit Tredway (that man again) with a centering pass close in and the sophomore scoring machine ripped it by Hynes...
According to the Book of Genesis, the universe began in a single, flashing act of creation; the divine intellect willed all into being, ex nihilo. It is not surprising that scientists have generally stayed clear of the question of ultimate authorship, of the final "uncaused cause." In years past, in fact, they held to the Aristotelian idea of a universe that was "ungenerated and indestructible," with an infinite past and an infinite future. This was known as the Steady State theory...