Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bargaining. The Administration's peacemaking bid was based on a firm belief that the union does not want a strike. Key Administration officials feel that the steel companies' insistence on no wage increase is an unrealistic policy, adopted entirely as a bargaining point-though they also feel that the industry is in a much better position to take a strike than in 1956. Up to now, both sides have spent so much time arguing the issues in public that they have not got down to any serious bargaining. The President's letter was calculated to give them...
...Catholic; I do not necessarily go along with Senator John Kennedy or his beliefs, but I am ashamed that the people who think that religion should be a factor in politics are citizens of this country, where all men are equal. Such a belief is not only insane, it is childish. I do not wish to defend Kennedy or his faith, but I do think that religion is not a basis for election. Religion should not enter into politics, especially those politics that concern a nation...
...Charge? Perhaps Nikita Khrushchev had never wanted summit talks enough to pay any substantial price for them. But however badly he wanted them, the Western performance last week was likely to encourage him in the belief that he need not pay much of anything at all. Skillfully as they had defended their positions in the first weeks of the conference, Herter and his colleagues had now seriously to consider whether anything short of a Western walkout at Geneva could convince Moscow that it had anything to lose by playing it tough...
...between excess weight and diabetes, gall-bladder trouble, and diseases of the heart, arteries and kidneys. Already evident, he said, is that in both sexes after 65, blood pressure goes up with weight, but has little or no relationship to height alone. And despite the popular belief that tall people die younger, height has nothing to do with longevity. Weight is the villain, Dr. Master concluded. "It is clear that obesity reduces the life span, and the outlook for thin persons is more favorable." That average weights are so much less in the most aged might indicate that these individuals...
...love and memory are enough; he has fashioned a timeless frieze of the titans and the lotus eaters of the '20s. It is perhaps typical of Loeb that a decade later he was a devotee of technocracy. His generation could never escape the Gatsby Syndrome, the belief in "the green light" ever beckoning toward an elusively perfect tomorrow...