Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ball was aware that such a policy will meet with strong opposition. "There is hardly a day," said he, "when a representative of industry does not assert emphatically to us in Washington that his industry needs a system of rigid quotas to keep out foreign imports or it will perish." Ball argued that European nations also resisted such changes when the Common Market was first proposed. Yet once they made the "hard choices"-mergers, increased investment, modernization-"many found to their great relief that the dreaded competition from other European producers was not so formidable after all. The adjustments have...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci made by far the most noise yesterday at a City Council meeting where several Councilors tried to assert a monopoly ownership of the voice of the people Cambridge. It was the second to last meeting before the election next Tuesday...
...increased importance of the General Assembly, where this bloc can assert its full strength, Rusher said, has resulted in the "tragic and insane" spectacle of United States-financed troops opposing the pro-Western regime of Molshe Tshombe in Katanga Province in the Congo...
...centers were eulogizers of laisses-faire capitalism. But, he writes, "it was not the worship of God that led to the worship of Mammon. It was rather that it was necessary to demonstrate that devotion to wealth was not necessarily an impediment to true piety-and the need to assert it was all the greater because so many of the Puritan fathers had so intensely feared the harmfulness of riches." When old-style "robber barons" wrote about their faith, they usually picked from a variety of philosophies "whatever contributed to the defense of their own conduct, riches and power...
...that capitalism would have developed differently in another spiritual climate: "In all religious faiths, the servants of God have invoked Him as a guarantee of the righteousness and prosperity of their own social class, their own nation, their own race-in short, their own interests. But we cannot assert that Christianity was therefore the cause of all the oppression of one social class by another that has been committed in God's name, or of all the wars in which the weapons have been blessed by Christian priests, or of all the aggressions perpetrated by representatives of the white...