Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Government Professor Wilson, part of the turnoff is the result of repeated governmental failure to follow through on issues. By flitting from issue to issue, he said, "we are less likely to generate sustained action, more likely to produce ill-conceived new agencies operating under badly drafted laws...
...many citizens are determined to have it their way-preferably at government expense-that suggests a breakdown in followership. "There seems to be no disposition to follow leaders," said Bunting. "Clausewitz once said that the most dangerous situation in a military campaign was a thwarted offensive. We are living now in a time of thwarted offensive. I mean the offensive of mind, of intellect; it follows very largely from the arousals of expectations during the Kennedy Administration...
...relevant councils, committees, boards and departments, indeed, Your Majesty's treasury, not to speak of our brother and sister taxpayers." Olivier, who has recently forsaken his own stage career (but not films) after battling a strength sapping muscle disorder, finished his speech by wishing to those who follow, "joy eternal." While the audience, which included Playwrights Eugéne Ionesco and J.B. Priestley, applauded, the trouper then made a low, and justifiably long...
...Leonid I. Brezhnev has tried for years to stop his heavy smoking. He even resorted to a special cigarette case with a timer; the case would open only once every 45 minutes. Last year Brezhnev finally kicked his habit and apparently feels that other Russians can-and had better-follow his lead...
...with their families for a weekend had been concerned about how much longer the wilderness oasis could survive the state's increasing industrialization. Now they need worry no longer. In a unique effort, Mississippi has not only preserved the Pascagoula, but set an example that other states could follow in safeguarding their own unspoiled areas...