Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citizens filing the suit charge the MBTA, the Urban Mass Transportation Authority (which allocated nearly half a billion dollars for the extension) and the contractors with violating the National Environmental Policy Act, the Department of Transportation Act and the Urban Mass Transportation Act...
...three programs act only as way-stations for the homeless, and do not claim to be the solution in themselves...
Firmly committed to action in places like Vietnam and India, the U.S. had only to decide how to act. "There had to be action, the commitment to this was powerful," Galbraith writes. "But if there was to be a remedy, there had to be a cause. If it couldn't be identified, it would have to be invented or assumed." By inventing causes, U.S. foreign policy makers showed they were blinded by their own cultural and economic experience. As a consequence, they matched causes to actions that were politically and economically feasible. Academics and officials therefore took...
...realize that this time, like the spring of 1969, is one of pressing issues, a time to work hard for serious changes. There need not be another strike if the administration is willing to respond to the voices of legitimate student protest. But students should not be afraid to act if the need arises. For those who see the need for real student protest are not, to borrow Pusey's contemptuous phrase, "Walter Mittys on the left." We are realists. And so after we look back and remember, we must also look to the present, and think hard about...
...both requisites. Edmund Morris is a journalist who was raised in Kenya; his portrait of a man and an epoch is written without prejudice or awe. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt takes its subject up to the presidency; a second volume will follow. Morris has set himself a tough act, for Volume I does more than evoke the irrepressible Rough Rider. The author has also summoned a vanished era when the U.S. was a boisterous, Godfearing, patriotic country whose leaders were a full-length reflection of their constituency...