Word: clearer
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Levenson's later work, though often highly praised, remained a focus for controversy, some of which persists in scholarly journals today. The implications of his method and vision, what he expected of the historian placed heavy demands on those who wrote (and read) history, demands that became clearer as he completed his largest work, Confucian China and its Modern Fate...
...that Jimmy Carter has accumulated a new sensitivity to the other world leaders and their cultures, gained a clearer view of what moves nations and an instinct for the proper moment in which to speak and act. He will need it. He has a way to go to recover the world's confidence...
Like fast-approaching storm clouds, the consequences of the political turmoil that shut down Iran's oil fields became clearer last week, presaging a period of trouble and uncertainty for Western nations. Higher fuel prices and some scarcities are inevitable in the U.S. President Carter warned that though the situation created by the Iranian cutoff is "not critical" yet, it "certainly could get worse." He said that the difficulties might be manageable if Americans "honor the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, set thermostats no higher than 65° and limit discretionary driving." Otherwise, the President added, "more strenuous action" would...
...burden for all Americans, but a disaster for the poor, the sick and the old." To combat it, he singled out his bill to contain hospital costs; he claims the legislation would save Americans $60 billion over the next five years. Said he: "There will be no clearer test of the commitment of this Congress to the anti-inflation fight." He cited the need for deregulation of the railroad, bus and trucking industries after the successful liberation of the airlines from bureaucratic control...
...wasn't until last summer and fall, when the U.S. press at last gave deeper attention to Iran, that some important nuances came clearer. TIME'S September cover story "Iran in Turmoil," for example, reports "the mullahs, for all their abhorrence of the decadent excesses of modernism, have traditionally been political progressives." (The Columbia Review article overlooks such considered judgments, and itself may have too cockily declared that the Shi'ites "are not interested in running the country...