Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations bent their heads over the problems of the old earth. They saw the present 2 billion population increased to 3 billion by the year 2000. But they were plunged in no Malthusian gloom. They could see, on the contrary, a day when the whole world would be better off. Science was the tool-but not the answer. The answer was man himself. Said The Netherlands' Dr. Egbert de Vries, expert on rural economies: "People are an asset, a natural,resource, and not a liability . . . Humanity has the right, the duty and the privilege of having faith...
Last week, having run up $800 in back rent, Alfred Birnbaum decided he was better off when he was in his small walk-up fiat, sold all his rights to the $15,000 dream house to a New York lawyer for $1,000, to get the blamed thing off his hands...
...Labor] parties, contributed to [the crisis] . . . The Labor Government, as the bearers of responsibility, are very much to blame for their stubbornness in refusing to remit anything of their plans . . . It is not enough for a self-respecting Government merely to say that its opponents would have been no better ... In Britain courage pays political dividends. Those politicians who refuse to prolong the rosy illusions . . . and tell the people soberly what needs to be done would be surprised at the response...
...kind of pre-Nazi politician who did not succumb to National Socialism and who now must lead his country's new life until a new generation, not tainted by Hitler, can rise to power. Adenauer has limitations, but he can at least be counted upon to seek better relations between Germany and the West. He will try to continue the free enterprise that has done so much to speed German recovery. He is a shrewd and able coalitionist at a time when a coalition government (without Communists) must succeed...
...what they please ... A people's democracy is a country where the standard of living of the people must be kept below the standard of living of the Soviet people. Since Soviet man is superior to all other men, obviously no one else must be allowed to live better than the Soviet...