Word: forcefullness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People tend to forget how important free trade is to the economic and political health of the globe. History abounds with evidence of the folly of protectionism. Ever-higher trade barriers, climaxed by the U.S. Haw-ley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930, helped bring on the Depression and the World...
"She wouldn't have told me she was from Aetna had I not asked her," Boas said. "She was very forceful and wanted to get the policy closed the same day as she presented it," he added.
Although the play's success hinged on Whitmore's forceful rendering of Roosevelt's intriguing personality, author Jerome Alden has tailored the script so as to maximize the assets of both actor and character. Essentially biography, the play weaves together the most important parts of Roosevelt's life, mixing reminiscence...
Although the orchestra sometimes seemed uninspired during the evening, there was no dragging feeling in the last two movements. Melnyk's acutely sensitive solo passages were matched by the orchestra's dramatic surges, held together by Yannatos. Shifting smoothly from soft piano stretches to rousing tuttis, the orchestra and soloist...
Still, nothing can keep the portrait from coming out a negative. Her Majesty's surest instinct is for what is not done; her habitual expression is the absence of an expression. Her strength, Lacey is driven to argue in an ultimate paradox, is "the absence of a forceful . . . personality...