Word: conquering
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...author does not hide his admiration for the man whose record of 36 years on the high court may stand forever. And there is indeed much to admire. As a child in Yakima, Wash., Douglas had to conquer polio and poverty. He gave up everything dear to him to jump into the Establishment's big East Coast pond, and by age 39 was leading the successful campaign to reform the New York Stock Exchange. He spent half of his life on the Supreme Court championing un popular causes and had so much surplus energy that he became a prolific...
DOCTOROW makes Joe more than a symbol, gives him blood and flesh and a life of trudgery to fight and conquer. And he gives him a friend and a lover. The lover is Clara Lukacs, a lurid beauty with creamy skin and silky hair, a mortician's daughter and a mobster's moll who escapes with Joe from the Great Depression. They can never run far enough; the depression overwhelms them, the world closes in until the glamorous doll is no more than a housewife in Jacksontown, Indiana, and the noble free-spirit is the headlight man on the assembly...
...through the principle of "appropriate scale." Thus he calls for an international division of labor to achieve what national economic interests cannot, and a reduction of government programs that have proven inefficient. He hopes for the primacy of themis--"the characteristic human good"--over techne, man's ability to conquer nature...
...government team made little headway; in a tacit admission of failure, Gierek abruptly replaced Tadeusz Pyka as chief negotiator with Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, a seasoned and effective bargainer. It was Jagielski who ultimately abandoned the divide-and-conquer approach, and met personally with a Strike Committee delegation?to the cheers of the picketing workers...
...they have two alternatives, neither of which bodes well for the rest of the world. They could use their gold reserves to compete with Western buyers on the already strained world oil market. This would push prices higher and cause incalculable economic turmoil. Or the Soviets could try to conquer Persian Gulf oilfields, which begin just across their southern border. Kremlin leaders flatly deny that they covet oil vital to the industrial West, but intelligence sources report that even Saudi Arabian leaders have held informal talks with the Soviets about the possibility of selling crude in exchange for Soviet...