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Both speakers also praised American efforts to negotiate a cease-fire and terms of peace. Atwood also lauded President Clinton's encour- agement to "take risks for peace because America will stand by those who take risks for peace...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Politicians Discuss Conflict in Northern Ireland | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

Like so many other federal programs, disability insurance has lost sight of its original purpose. Instead of helping to put people back on their feet, it is encour aging them to remain prostrate, permanent wards of society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beneficent Monster | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...prescription, and are not likely to be for a long time, "Abbott's memory pills" are the subject of growing enthusiasm among brain researchers. Until last week, the only evidence of the pills' ef fectiveness had been supplied by experi ments with rats; now there is encour aging preliminary evidence, reports Psy chiatrist D. Ewen Cameron, that the pills may help to mend the fraying mem ory of aging humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurology: Memory Pills | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...Lambeth Conference so free from princely affectation." "A Fearless Witness." "Marxian Communism ," the conferees declared, "is con trary to Christian faith and practice, for it denies the existence of God, Revelation and a future life; it treats the individual man as a means and not an end ; it encour ages class warfare . . ." But the headway made by Communism is in itself a judg ment on church and society, for in many minds Communism has replaced the church as the challenger of oppression and poverty. The church's best rebuttal is to "be a fearless witness against political, social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Eighth Lambeth | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...real puzzle is with industrial securities. They have appreciated along with the rails, but more uncertainly and subject to larger reactions. Moreover, securities of different industries have behaved quite differently. Industrial news continues to become more encour- aging. Last week, the copper industry began to cheer up, as the iron and steel industry had already done. Yet prospects of any industrial boom are still far away, and the slowly rising market for most industrial securities seems to predict a powerful although quite grad- ual improvement in industry itself next spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business: The Current Situation: Dec. 15, 1924 | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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