Word: adamancy
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...nation's largest black communities in Congress. A Harlem native, Rangel returned to New York City after combat in Korea to win a law degree, appointment as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and election to the state assembly. After a bruising contest in 1970, he narrowly defeated Adam Clayton Powell for the Democratic nomination to Congress. Two years later he was re-elected with 96% of his district's vote. The ebullient Rangel is chairman of the congressional Black Caucus and a Judiciary Committee member who outspokenly advocates the President's impeachment...
...manage an unruly economy, the Nixon Administration has at one time or another applied the diverse economic theories of Milton Friedman (concentration on money supply), John Maynard Keynes (liberal spending) and John Kenneth Galbraith (price control). Last week, still seeking an effective anti-inflation strategy, it went back to Adam Smith. In a bow to the oldtime, laissez-faire religion of reduced Government spending, the White House announced that it would try to trim more than $5 billion out of the budget for fiscal 1975, which starts this week. If the cuts are actually made, spending would still rise...
Getting Penny Pincher Jack Benny to kick $300,000 into a shaky oil scheme is no easy job. Enticing Financial Cognoscente George J.W. Goodman ("Adam Smith," author of The Money Game) to chip in $110,000 seemingly should be even harder. Or consider trying to gull $211,000 out of Walter Wriston, chairman of the First National City Bank...
...much a question of trusting the Russians. It is rather a question of analyzing motives and interests and judging whether they coincide. Beyond everything else is the mutual desire to stay alive. "They don't want to live in an era of incalculable dangers either," says Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. "détente is very good for our nerves, and even though the Russians have pretended to have stronger nerves than we do, in effect they also appreciate an easing of these tensions." In an era of nuclear proliferation, that is a statement that both...
Ramsey, a Methodist, cites St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans in supporting the traditional Christian view that death entered the world as "the wages of sin" -the punishment for Adam's fall.* Ever since, Ramsey insists, death has been "the enemy." Jesus' death on the cross redeemed man for immortality, but did nothing to prevent death from being a shattering separation of soul and body. Christians, argues Ramsey, thus properly dread death, and in their care for the sick wisely laid the foundations of Western medicine. Nowadays, Ramsey says, "true humanism" still depends on a "dread...