Word: constant
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...hard for her own key to the man. "I think he's very unusual. He's complex. He has a lot of different interests, a lot of different sides." She settled on two aspects that make her husband who he is: his roots in Plains and his constant hard work. The decision to leave the Navy and return to Plains gave them a life of total sharing-they worked together to build their business, they made a team venture of his campaigns...
...Number one, there is a serious problem as to national security. The Soviet Union over the last decade has had a constant program of gradually strengthening and modernizing its military capabilities. At the same time, the U.S. paid less attention to [its military strength] and permitted a narrowing of the gap with the Soviet Union. We have been able to turn it around the last two years, and we are now on the right track. If this trend continues, then the U.S. has nothing to be concerned about. However, if we again go into the posture that developed before...
...right to do more for himself or more for his family, I think one of the great character builders of this country will be down the drain. And once that goes down the drain, a lot of the character in our form of government likewise will be under constant jeopardy. We didn't get to be a great country by having the Government do all of that or labor do all of that or industry do all of that. We became great because of the individual. But there has been some erosion of that individual's opportunities...
Reports TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who is based in Hong Kong: "The mix of popular dissatisfaction, the loss of Mao as a figure of authority and the constant infighting within the bureaucracy have created the most explosive political crisis to face China since the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. The vast might of the military makes a genuine civil war unlikely, but if lingering unrest and sporadic outbreaks of violence continue, Hua could be shunted aside by the army. His military backers may decide that they have put up the wrong man to deal with the post-Mao crisis...
...ordinary Chinese may prove harder for Hua to deal with. Mass dissatisfaction, held in check under Mao, was unleashed following his death. Workers are unhappy over low wages, effectively frozen since 1971. There is widespread resentment about intrusive authority, misuse of power by local officials and party demands for constant indoctrination sessions. Existing poverty has been exacerbated by the rising expectations that are encouraged by the Chinese leaders, who talk constantly about the splendid present and the glowing future. Young Chinese resent the practice of being sent from the cities to the countryside to learn the virtues of agricultural labor?...