Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Latin Americans who look north to the U.S. for the funds that they need to build their way out of backwardness inevitably focus on the U.S. Government's biggest single source of foreign-development capital, the Export-Import Bank of Washington. What they find is a bank that this year is lending seven times as much development capital as it did a decade ago, a bank that takes the risks that Wall Street shuns-yet a businesslike bank that holds to hard-loan standards...
...Challenge. Today. Father Baum perceives "a renaissance of Protestant thought." Instead of looking upon the Scriptures as historical material, Protestant thinkers now take them essentially as "the proclamation of the faith of the early Church." Instead of focusing on the time when Jesus was alive, Protestantism is beginning to focus on what is really accessible-the time of the early Church, after the Crucifixion. This places the Scriptures in an entirely new light. "What is important, first of all, is not whether Jesus really said this or that, or really did this or that; what counts is that through...
DISARMAMENT: "A détente can only come with disarmament. It should focus on the reciprocal control of missiles and strategic aircraft and the ships that carry nuclear arms." (Notably omitted: any support for the U.S.-British hope of a nuclear test-ban agreement...
...story is true, and Author Sandoz might just as well have told it straight, instead of grafting stiff-legged dialogue into striding narrative. Somehow, her Platte seems more vivid than her pioneers, and poor John Cozad looks a bit shriveled and out of focus, as if viewed from the Bottom of an empty glass of redeye...
Although the main focus was on Detroit, there were other signs of an impending showdown. Items: ¶ In Washington, Stuart Symington's announcement of his candidacy (see below), with the advice and consent of Harry Truman, had the desired effect of stiffening some Kennedy opposition. ¶ From Washington came word that Lyndon Johnson would declare his candidacy earlier than he had planned-probably after the California primaries in June. Asked if Lyndon would announce before the convention, Rayburn said: "He will at the proper time, if he follows my advice." Had he advised him yet? "Not yet, I haven...