Word: approach
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Abraham Lincoln showed the humility of a genuine patriot when he did not claim that God was on his side but prayed that he might be on God's. Over the long run, the U.S. approach to its national interest has nearly always been suffused with a highly moral tone. At times, that tone has been debased, as it was by those who saw in the Spanish-American War a crusade to "Christianize" the heathen, provide God's chosen with more markets and advance their "resistless march toward the commercial supremacy of the world." This led Andrew Carnegie...
...stern, scholarly type who conducts with angular, storklike grace, Skrowaczewski takes an approach that is exact and exacting. Starting with a unit that was already a leader in the second rank of U.S. orchestras (behind the "big five" of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland and Chicago), he has given it an even finer edge of technical precision. While enriching its sound, particularly in the strings, he has achieved a limpid texture that lets the inner architecture of the music shine through. His interpretations, though vigorous and often intense, do not often reflect great emotional involvement-a trait that frustrates some...
Into the Midwest. Nor are bigger operators immune from pressures, as Korvette's experience plainly shows. Though Founder Eugene Ferkauf revolutionized retailing with his approach to discounting (TIME cover, July 6, 1962), Korvette's haphazard management was not equal to its ambition of simultaneously upgrading merchandise, adding new services and expanding the New York-based chain into the midwest. To check his chain's decline, Ferkauf last year merged into apparel-making Spartans Industries (which has promised the Federal Trade Commission to sell its own 96 Spartan-Atlantic discount stores) and turned over the reins to Spartans...
...20th century is approaching old age. Just 33 years away lies the birth of a new millennium, an event that will be witnessed by two out of every three Americans alive today. Even the most farsighted among them cannot accurately predict what the world will be like then. But in the fast-expanding new field called futurism, the once mystical art of soothsaying has developed a scientific approach...
...approach of Hughes and Perkins appears strikingly different from the bitter and unsuccessful fight waged two years ago by a group of tutors for similar changes in the History program...