Word: constant
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Political Heresy. Ever since he was hit by a subway strike barely five hours after he assumed office a year ago, Lindsay has been involved in an almost constant courtship of calamity. After the transit strike came a fare hike, and neither of them endeared him to voters. Faced with an empty treasury, he imposed a new city income tax and made the New York Stock Exchange consider exile across the Hudson because of an increased stock-transfer tax. His cherished civilian-controlled board to review complaints against the police was ignominiously defeated 2 to 1 at the polls...
...think we trifle with the intelligence of the American democracy when we assume it will never accept bad news, must indeed be fed a constant diet of good news about past programs, accompanied by forecasts of catastrophe unless new and greater ones are enacted," Moynihan told the committee...
...Moynihan insisted that such an office--if it is to be meaningful--be staffed by professional social scientists and be a free agent of Congress. "The executive is exposed to the constant temptation to release only those findings that suit its purposes;" he said, "there is no one to keep them honest...
Angelo, the inquisitor, arrives at the house of Agata, a widow who lives with her daughter and sister-in-law. Angelo claims to have been a constant companion to Agata's husband before his death, and he uses this claims to make Agata confide her loneliness and insecurity, thus propelling her ultimately to accept him and the freedom he represents...
...Constants & Change. "When the general convictions of mankind and the insights of its wisest men agree," Simons argues, "we can be reasonably sure that they embody a substantially correct view of the contents of natural moral law." Some moral law is virtually self-evident and thus constant through history-for example, respect for life and property. But there has also been change and development in man's understanding of morality. The modern consensus establishes as sinful certain behavior patterns, such as slavery and polygamy, that previous ages accepted as moral. Now, Simons believes, a consensus is developing outside...