Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...XIII as a papal encyclical-an open letter to the bishops of the church. Dealing directly and forcibly with the social ills facing the world at the turn of the century, it condemned socialism as immoral but supported trade unions and higher wages, state regulation of industry and broader distribution of property and wealth. Brought up to date 40 years later by Pope Pius XI, it is the starting point of modern Catholic social thought, and the ideological bedrock on which today's huge Christian Democratic parties in Italy, Germany and Belgium are founded...
Many of the questions of the conference will deal with urbanization. What is that impact of the city on its population? what are the specific characteristics--physical, social, cultural, etc.-- that explain this impact? How explain urban growth, and why do some cities stagnate or die? What is the broader significance of suburbanization, and what happens to the central city...
...their horizons were broader, the new Texans had some of their fathers' narrow wisdom about them. They knew how to make credit work and work again. For them, the real joy of business was the excitement of the risk and the satisfaction of pulling off a deal. And with an almost Calvinistic compulsion, they all drove themselves to work, work, work-even after they had made more money than they could ever personally use. "We are obligated to do something useful," says Clint Murchison Jr., "and the most useful thing I can do is be in business. The most...
...leave in three years are unlikely to have much concern for secondary education or much explicit interest in making the Freshman year more interesting. It is a less than astonishing result that most students accept Soph Standing for reasons that seem trivial or absurd to those with a broader view...
...Broader Horizons. Mongolia's Premier Yumzhagiin Tsedenbal has dexterously used his pivotal position to try to acquire the status of an independent nation. He sent a Mongolian trade mission to Czechoslovakia last month to buy Czech machinery and equipment. Another delegation in Tokyo concluded a deal swapping Japanese machinery and equipment for animal products. Mongolia has established diplomatic relations not only with all the nations of the Soviet bloc, but also with such neutrals as India. Nepal, Burma. Yugoslavia. Cambodia and Guinea, and is bidding actively for U.S. recognition and U.N. membership...