Word: dares
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Hardly anyone today would dare to define the American promise in such grandiose terms. On the other hand, we can hardly return to the idyllic notion of leaving the rest of the world to its own devices except by setting an example. We may not be smart, rich or powerful enough to run the world, but we are certainly not smart, rich or powerful enough to maintain our prosperity and democracy in a world dominated by antagonistic forces and philosophies. To find the balance between more or less saintly isolation and crusading global zeal, between the danger of exhausting ourselves...
Worst of all, inflation increasingly seems capable of directly causing recession. Inflation does so by either pricing many goods out of the reach of would-be buyers, or by making consumers figure that they dare not buy cars or refrigerators because they will need every penny to pay the next round of increases in food, clothing, rent and utility bills...
...that was part of the art of screenwriting: forget whether it looks like garbage on paper. Will it read well? Wuthering Heights does, and it works, although no one would dare try anything like...
...dare you intimate that Justice William O. Douglas should resign his seat [April 7]? Throughout my entire lifetime he has been the voice of the people-the maverick who stood up for the underdog. I have no doubt that he is still the capable and forward-thinking jurist that he has always been. Janice Leber North Hollywood, Calif...
...real question is the deficit for fiscal '76. President Ford has announced that he will draw the line at $60 billion and resist any bills that threaten to send the deficit higher; he believes that that is as far as the nation dare go to stimulate recovery while holding inflation down. That stand puts him on a collision course with the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, which seems determined, at the risk of refueling inflation, to spend more in order to spur a faster upturn...