Word: answering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single fund-raising dinner featuring Ted Kennedy. McGovern is investing almost a third of his budget in a door-to-door canvass to woo back the voters he needs. A skillful debater, he put another third of his funds into newspaper and television ads and question-and-answer appearances on radio...
...return of "every inch" of occupied soil. In the year that Jarring has been trying to bridge such gaps, Israeli opinion has only hardened against any return to the prewar boundaries. At the same time, any Arab government that tried to sign a peace treaty now would have to answer to the increasingly powerful and hard-lining Palestinian commandos. Given continued Soviet lack of interest in a settlement, any peace remains a remote prospect...
...angry, the answer lately has been protest, demonstration, not. And violence does bring a sense of power does achieve change-though more often it brings only violent reaction. There are other ways, and they work "Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down,' says John Gardner Yet even in despotic societies, good men have managed to rise against the odds and become the architects, not of revolution, but of peaceful change. This is true not merely of the obvious geniuses and unique innovators but of seemingly ordinary people...
...days are usually caused by a pile-up of many small problems-nearly all of them soluble by small-scale activism. The fact is that democracy needs Doers at every level. How can the U.S. ensure that there are always enough to go around? Does it develop them? The answer is a highly qualified...
...chances are that no one will ever know the exact size of the demand for Doers. How many constructive dissenters, how many self-appointed critics are necessary to keep democracy vigorous? The only answer is that the U.S. needs plenty of them, and that there will never be enough...