Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapidly losing our awareness of how others think. In short, confrontation methods are developing educational activists who close their minds to opposing issues in society and thus "optout" on the unique and basic purposes of higher education. Protests in the form of recent school-bond rejections by our generous but nettled taxpayers, suggest a greater sensitivity to the purposes of higher education than is shown by this college president and the professors and students who carry on adulterous love affairs with their own thinking...
...formidable handicap. The most modest plan would cost about $4 billion more than today's welfare; the most ambitious would cost $30 billion more. Neither calculation, however, reckons the present system's potential cost, which, without any modifications, might continue to expand indefinitely. Eventually, even the most generous supplement plan might seem cheap by comparison. As it is, the U.S. spends less proportionally on social welfare than almost any other industrial country...
Deficit Expected. The U.S. needs an exceptionally high and rising rate of exports in order to balance its generous outflow of capital for imports, foreign aid, military aid, tourism and the like. Unless the nation achieves faster ex port growth/ it will not be able to bring its balance of payments into line, and the value of the dollar may be threatened. Though the U.S. payments ran slightly in surplus during the July-through-September quarter, much of this was due to such temporary factors as the turbulence in Czechoslovakia and France, which caused considerable European capital to flee into...
Harrison was equally generous with his praise of Hardy. "Ernie can jump higher than anyone else on the team; nothing fires up the team more than seeing him go up to grab a rebound or block a shot," he said...
Idealism is for Goodwin an eminently practical force. A party whose policy is generous and purposeful, whose leadership is high-minded rather than cynical--such a party, he thinks, would move people to action. "Optimism is grounded in the fact that people, if offered that kind of leadership, will respond...