Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will now become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board has proved forceful and adroit in adapting to most of the roles he has played. As a conservative economist with a profound faith in the free market, Greenspan has earned the attention of thinkers in every ideological camp. As a White House official, he displayed the dedication and dexterity needed to fashion difficult political compromises. And, unlike many economists who flourish mainly in the confines of a college classroom, Greenspan scored a solid success in the corporate world. His highly profitable, 34-year-old Townsend-Greenspan consulting firm numbers...
...royals must be somewhat extraordinary to win our faith, they must also be rather ordinary to hold our sympathy. Humanity is the one thing they can never abdicate. So it is that every king proverbially longs to see how the other half lives: the tiny Dalai Lama, installed as God-King of Tibet at the age of four, used to stand on the roof of his palace and wistfully gaze through a telescope at the other little boys playing in the streets of Lhasa; the British rulers faithfully follow the trials of everyday drudges on the local soap opera Crossroads...
...press is the middleman. It is in effect the professor for the public," Kalb says, adding, "policy is the result of the policy maker and the public." But Kalb says that recent developments in the press have unsettled his faith in broadcast journalism. "Network news has undergone profound changes. I worry about the trend toward increasing shallowness, pretension and egomaniacal compulsion," he says. "We must stick to old-fashioned values...
...other words, the faith Americans placed in Ronald Reagan was never justified and should never be possessed by any one single democratic leader. Few things are more dangerous for democracy than a leader perceived to be so great that he is entrusted with commensurate powers, for such discretion inevitably is passed on to less worthy successors. When a leader as loved and trusted as Ronald Reagan betrays the American people, popular recrimination and disengagement from the public sphere can be expected. This would be the worst consequence of the Administration's brazen disregard for law--if Americans walked away from...
...speech provided Europeans with a will to prepare for the future. As German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said in a recent speech, Marshall's words were instrumental in providing Germans with "hope and faith in the future at a time of dire misery...