Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enjoys what promises to be an extended vacation, the American press has presented nothing but the exotic--the strange--in the opposition to a man both the U.S. government and press has tried to maintain. American press coverage throughout the current crisis has reflected western cultural biases, and a belief that the United States could and should mold the political affairs of another nation--the most persistent moral and pragmatic error in U.S. foreign policy development...
What surprises listeners most about the Shah is his belief that he can still go home again. The Ayatullah Khomeini, in his view, is a crazed man, a transitory figure. A successful military coup is unlikely, since junior officers and most of the army would not support it. The Bakhtiar government has no popular base and is bound to fail. The prognosis, then, is chaos; the only solution is the Shah. After all, the tide of history turned against him with unexpected swiftness; it could as swiftly turn in his favor. "I deserve another chance," he says...
...biggest backed deregulation, judging correctly that lower fares would tempt more people to fly and actually increase their profits. The ICC must contend with 16,600 regulated truck lines-at least one in every congressional district, truckers like to point out-and most are united in the belief that lowering rates and letting new firms enter the business will not generate more cargo, but only cut profits for everybody. The Teamsters Union stridently opposes deregulation too; the 300,000 members covered by its master freight agreement have won fat wage and benefit increases that truck lines have been able...
...head out of their cages and watching them fly up into the air." His own birds wing off in a hundred different directions. Writing of life in general, he notes: "We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." On belief: "Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them." And, "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect." Love receives a whole chapter. "When the coin is tossed, either...
...data either. With the Big Bang theory, says Jastrow, "science has proved that the world came into being as a result of forces that seem forever beyond the power of scientific description. This bothers science because it clashes with scientific religion-the religion of cause and effect, the belief that every effect has a cause. Now we find that the biggest effect of all, the birth of the universe, violates this article of faith...