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Word: forcefullness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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A cut in consumption of the size that would result from a 50? per gal. tax would pay important dividends both domestically and internationally. In the U.S. it would amount to an immediate and forceful warning to all Americans that energy conservation is now a national imperative. Overseas it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter Considers a Gas Tax | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Lenka Peterson (Henny) succeeds in seeming 83 years old, which, under the garish light of a hospital room, is a feat. She's a forceful character, who makes her son's childlike infatuation with her fairly credible. Henny falters where the script does. She's got too many lines and...

Author: By Jamie O. Aisenberg, | Title: The Big Apple Turned Over | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

In response to Khomeini's demand for the Shah, Carter, in a forceful performance during a nationally televised press conference last week, renewed his vow never to yield to blackmail. His stand has won him the strongest support among Americans since he became President.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Few of the women fit their parts, least of all Sweeney, who is not at all the forceful, bravura wonderwoman Aristophanes had in mind for Lysistrata. She seems intent upon getting through her lines as quickly as possible with a minimum of enthusiasm or voice inflection, and in this respect...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

The bitter political infighting that characterized this election and the LDP's shrinking majority signal several political changes for Japan. The election results confirm that the LDP's salad days of dictating policy and setting the national agenda are over. Ohira needs to forge a new coalition of moderate-centrist...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Discovering Japan | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

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