Word: felt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose ambition was to grow large enough to be listed on the Big Board, the New York Stock Exchange. Levitt, who now earns more than $200,000 a year, says he discovered that these companies had "little representation in government and very little control over their own destinies. I felt the Amex could become a spokesman for that neglected constituency...
...private life the Cardinal was a witty, charming and humane man. During World War II he personally sheltered a number of Jews. But he will be remembered for his official acts to ward off the influence of the modern world, which he felt threatened piety and the church, and which he described as "prey to an ardent rage for novelties." Ottaviani once said: "There is only one principle which counts. The church as service. And to serve it means to be faithful to its laws. Like a blind man. Like the blind...
...Nicaraguans threw their own President, Jose Zelaya, out of office in 1909, because he had stirred up U.S. hostility when he told the U.S. that it would have to stop elsewhere for a site for the canal it planned to build. Zelaya refused to sign a treaty which he felt was unfairly advantageous...
...Cremens's second inspection on March 1, he recorded on his notation sheet that "some progress" was made. But the tenants still felt that the common areas and other units were in need of repair. In protest, on March 1, some tenants chose to withhold their rent in an escrow account until the building met health guidelines...
...never imagined"). The bachelor Republican, who was graduated from Michigan State University and attended Harvard Divinity School, is known in his southern Michigan district for opposing excessive regulation of the auto industry. Last year he helped defeat Carter's complex hospital cost-containment bill because he felt it was "a cure worse than the disease." Stockman's main goal is to reduce the role of the Government in society and to chip away at "the social pork barrel?the tremendous pressure of parochial, narrowly defined interests...