Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its name, Pennsylvania Life Insurance is based in Los Angeles. It concentrates on selling disability income insurance, which its 1,850 salesmen peddle with missionary fervor to self-employed merchants, farmers and smalltown businessmen. The salesmen are not required to be creative, but merely to read a 25-minute presentation prepared by the company. Management's philosophy is that anybody who can read can sell. Success is founded on making plenty of presentations; salesmen make as many as a dozen brief calls for each prospect who is willing to listen to a presentation. But Penn Life has calculated...
...President timed the speech in such a way? The reasoning seemed to be that advance notice would dilute some of the antiwar fervor, put the protesters in an awkward position and buy time. Then the President could deliver a calm, judicious review of his strategy, contrast it with the situation he had inherited and try to win more public understanding...
Burns has consistently opposed big government generally; he is strongly for decentralization, through such measures as federal-state revenue sharing. He is so devoted to a free-market economy, that he has written of it with unaccustomed fervor: "By and large, it is competition-not monopoly-that has vast sweep and power in our everyday life." This viewpoint leads him to consider wage-price "guidelines" to be almost as evil as statutory controls. "Free competitive markets would virtually cease to exist in an economy that observed the guidelines," he once wrote...
...need clear commitment and fervor to march on Washington, and the loose coalition of the Moratorium has neither. Planned by the New Mobilization Committee (New Mobe), the march calls for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops, not the "prompt" or "rapid" or "pretty soon" withdrawal that many Moratorium supporters seek...
...Greater Fervor. The "local control" granted individual orders and convents will probably mean far greater future variety among orders that still basically think of themselves as "contemplative." But most convents will probably now be more alert to the world around them, said Redemptoristine Sister Gertrude Wilkinson last week in Woodstock, Md., where representatives from 57 women's contemplative communities in the U.S. and Canada were meeting to discuss mutual problems. "We are becoming more conscious of the sufferings, problems and joys of the world," she explained. "If you know what you are praying for, you pray with greater fervor...