Word: believingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again it was Italy's steadily advancing Communist Party that was cast in a key role. The party had previously been opposed to easy abortion, believing that it should be regulated for the collective welfare and not left to "individualistic" prerogative. During a committee hearing on an earlier...
New strains of flu reach America about once every ten years; since no one can predict what a new virus will look like, flu immunization is a chancy business. (Since the virus changes so frequently, flu immunization is also a profitable business for a few drug companies.) Officials at the...
Meanwhile, the nomination of Ephraim Isaac had been yellowing with age. First proposed in 1971, his nomination passed through all the committees before being acted upon in 1975. Rejected by a committee of scholars alien to his field of expertise, Isaac had been deceived into believing that tenure was a...
In fact, although their views on a variety of subjects, including race relations and the war in Vietnam, diverged widely, Eastland and Hart were personal friends. Despite their friendship, however, Hart voted against Eastland when the latter ran for president pro tem of the Senate, believing that someone with Eastland...
Though open to other influences, as his frequent references to Gandhi and his chapter, "Buddhist Economics," indicate, Schumacher comes across as a believing Christian whose faith informs his daily life and practice. Yet, ever thoughtful of his reader, he accommodates the agnostic by explaining the "rational" functionality of religion. For...