Word: fittest
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...mind that says, "For 347 years we've been producing the most successful people in the world, and so why should we change?" And this arrogance will slither into your brain even as you listen to your last lecture on natural selection and the survival of the fittest, an attitude that trains you to seek success but never to define it. Nobody will challenge you if you take the secure route and follow those who have marched to Chase Manhattan Bank before...
...underclass. Like the intellectual, they must be made to understand that for the oppressed to be oppressed, they must participate in their own enslavement. THIS IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE BLACK BOURGEOISIE. This is the main objective of a society which boasts of the "survival of the fittest," "the nobility of competition and the sanctity of the free market place," the "elimination of ghettos" (that is, people rather than social structures), "the redundancy of people," and the creation of weapons that will wipe out people and leave cities intact. This is the legacy (and burden) of white capitalist America...
...people to make their nation strong and make it survive. From the depths of your soul, your dark soul, you must strive to be great, to survive, to stand over other men...and too, a nation must strive to do the same, it is the way of nature, the fittest survive, you see, like Nietzsche knew, and Wagner...
Just as Carter was making credit control a key focus of his retooled anti-inflation program, a joint congressional conference committee was agreeing, after years of debate, to broad-ranging legislation that would dramatically alter the structure of American banking. This will intensify the survival-of-the-fittest struggle going on among savings institutions, as they labor with soaring interest rates and try to attract new depositors...
...politicians then took a studiedly stern look at Chrysler's proposal. After all, barging into the free market system on behalf of a declining concern violated every tenet of what is supposed to be America's survival-of-the-fittest economy. And the politicians seemed to take a hard line on Chrysler, casting aspersions on Chrysler's tax code shenanigans, and substituting them with their own plan. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said that the government might aid Chrysler with a guaranteed loan of $750 million, but only after the corporation made internal sacrifices and set out a sound plan...