Word: catalystic
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Indeed, there was even a larger debate on whether the self-confidence has been building all along and the Bicentennial simply provided an opportunity to parade it or whether all the fireworks and songs had actually been a catalyst for something new. Washington's resident joy boys, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg, who write on political moods, felt vindicated since they have said for years America was never as down as others insisted. "This country listened to Jerry Rubin too long," said Scammon. "We heard from the mass of America on July 4. They have always been this...
...become a catalyst for a cause," Reems, whose real name is Herbert Streicher, said. "I hope I don't become a martyr...
...money from worthy projects. But the Group of 77 refused to budge. "We have been trying the com-modity-by-commodity approach for so many years," complained Widjojo Nitisastro, Indonesia's Minister of State for Economic, Financial and Industrial Affairs. "We must have the Common Fund as a catalyst...
...profit motive is the catalyst of our free-enterprise system. It "leads us into temptation," but the system corrects itself. Let's not knock "the goose that laid the golden egg" too hard, or we will end up with a dead goose on our hands...
...able to read Simenon with interest is to read between the lines, to make a creative extrapolation. By itself, Letter to My Mother is the maudlin nostalgia of an old man; however, with a bit of imagination on the reader's part, the roman policier mentality can be the catalyst to other, more serious reflections...