Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its wildfire success at campus disruption, S.D.S. has lost any firm sense of direction, if it ever had one. The Paris peace talks have clouded one of its central issues, the Viet Nam war. Blacks have pre-empted the fight against racism, and now often reject any association with white militant students. Universities are struggling to reform their structures and procedures-partly, of course, in response to S.D.S. demands and disruptive activities...
Increases in interest rates have usually been tolerated as a necessary evil in the fight against inflation. Last week, after announcing the fifth rise in the prime rate since December, U.S. bankers were greeted by an uncommon backlash. Criticism of the move came not only from the perennial easy-money advocates but from other responsible sources. Their contention was that the bankers have been just too cavalier about the cost of money...
...against inflation by about six months. With 20/20 hindsight, Arthur Okun, who was President Johnson's chief economist, concedes that "it has just been too easy to raise prices and wages. Nobody was scared of losing markets or jobs. Management knew that competitors would follow them rather than fight them. The villain of the piece was just too much demand...
...young. Children watch the scenes of brutality and carnage wide-eyed, with little fear; a Mexican mother nurses her child by holding her bandolier aside, the baby's tiny fists pressed up against the cartridges. Finally, with mounting excitement, one boy gets to participate in his first fight-and excitedly shoots Pike Bishop in the back...
...bordellos. Because he is scrappy and unwilling to compromise, he has spent a good deal of his professional time warring with the money men in the front office, who truncated Major Dundee and fired him from The Cincinnati Kid after three days of shooting. "You have to worry and fight until you get what you want," he once said, and if Peckinpah has battled more than most, his tenacity has finally paid...