Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are worthy goals. They can be achieved. But they summon a different dimension of moral conviction than that of a simpler past. They require the stamina to persevere amid ambiguity, and the courage to hold fast to what we believe in while recognizing that at any one time our hopes are likely to be only gradually fulfilled. It is the essence of moral purposes that they appear absolute and universal. It is the essence of foreign policy to take into account the views of others who may also see their values in this manner...
...quiet beauty of the forest toward unseen checkpoints marked by map coordinates. For many, it is just a "hike with a purpose," an opportunity to stroll or picnic. For others, it is a madcap race in which speed afoot is as important as accuracy of map reading. A fast runner might plot a lengthier indirect course over clear ground, whereas a canny, perhaps flabbier orienteer might take the shorter, riskier route of a direct bearing...
...trick," says a top American orienteer, Peter Gagarin, "is to balance between speed and accuracy. You can be a terrifically fast runner, but that's no good at all if you can't find the checkpoints." Indeed, a small error in compass reading can land an orienteer dozens of yards away from−and make him unable to spot−a plastic punch dangling from a tree. Each punch makes a distinctive perforation in the hiker's punch card, indicating that he reached a particular checkpoint...
...POSSIBLE ADMINISTRATION PRICE GUIDELINES: I think it would be a mistake to set hard and fast numbers, targets. If you do, it just always says to somebody that they have a chance to cross the Rubicon and say 'I did it.' Once you start being specific you will have what begins to constitute a managed economy. I think that you have got to allow the marketplace to do its thing, [but] you may try to jawbone...
...Hugh has a record of flirting with danger, he has admitted he "likes to be frightened" and proves it by driving at 100 m.p.h. from Glasgow to Monte Carlo ("to see how fast I could get there") and racing horses with Liberal M.P. Clement Freud. Whatever the reason, Sir Hugh's recklessness has cost him more than money: the damage to his name could be permanent...