Word: develop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary and possibly outrageous that the President and Vice President are the only two elected officials in the U.S. who are not chosen by direct popular ballot. Yet no matter how acute the need for reform, the prospects are discouraging. Americans overwhelmingly favor change now, but as new crises develop, they are likely to forget about the problem until some future presidential contest again threatens to capsize the election system. More important, smaller states are certain to reject an amendment that would severely diminish their importance. Since a constitutional amendment requires ratification by three-fourths of the states as well...
Visibly Vexed. Gorton flew back to Canberra visibly vexed and more determined to implement a policy that he calls "economic nationalism." Australians want foreign capital and investment. Indeed they desperately need it, since there has never been enough local money in a predominantly agricultural country to develop a large industrial capacity. Nonetheless, Gorton and his countrymen are distressed by the fact that foreign companies now have about $6 billion invested in Australia and own one quarter of all its commercial assets...
...most terrifying act. It is not. Before you leave, you are crouched on a step almost entirely outside the fuselage of the plane. This experience gives you the feeling of existing as a flying being. You are faced forward into the wind that you are beginning to develop a true understanding for; you expect then, when you step off, to just mingle with it a little further...
...Court. He said this Urban Renewal, this group, just a freewheeling group and not a part of the state or territory of Alaska, they're not responsible to the people in any respect, they certainly can't take the property from one person and give it to another to develop...
...with his mother, because it was toward her that he felt his truly unatonable guilt: "Had he never been born, the wife and mother would have escaped her 'curse,' they all would have escaped what that 'curse' had done to their lives." Sheaffer fails to develop this suggestion beyond referring the reader as usual to Long Day's Journey and pointing out that those two woman-hating geniuses, Nietzsche and Strindberg, became O'Neill's literary idols and remained so to the end. At least one girl sensed young Eugene's mother...