Word: greater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many Germans of Nazi storm troopers. The party's platform appeals not only to German self-pity but also to glories of another time. Von Thadden tells Germans there is no reason to feel guilty, to "beat ourselves with the past." He advocates German reunification, a greater German voice in NATO, and tough measures against criminals and protesters. The N.P.D.'s slogan: "Security Through Law and Order." Goodly numbers of Germans share some of these sentiments, but they shrink from Von Thadden for fear of Nazism and the violence that surrounds the party...
...shops - France's legion of small shop keepers almost immediately began pushing prices up. In Paris, roughly 1 in every 10 shopkeepers broke the line and marked up prices an average of 5%. Last week the workers, reacting to the austerity program, were staying home from work in greater numbers than at any time since the nationwide shutdown in May 1968. The strikes constituted the first real challenge to Pompidou's authority and could well lead to an early showdown between his fledgling government and France's huge, Communist-dominated labor unions...
...hurting his environment, and in two highly popular books, Our Plundered Planet (1948) and The Limits of the Earth (1953), he examined the need for swift, strict environmental control. "Are we not," he once asked, "running such a busy race for food, space and employment for even greater numbers that we are forgetting the purpose of it all-a better living for human beings...
...already past, argues a growing band of responsible advocates of legalization, among them Psychiatrist Mikuriya and Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. They do not argue that marijuana is harmless, and they are seriously concerned that the open sale of pot would almost certainly increase its use and abuse, producing greater numbers of "pot lushes" and even pot skid rows. They defend ultimate legalization only because they believe that its probable costs to society are outweighed by the disadvantages of continued prohibition. They point out that as long as marijuana is forbidden it will continue to have the appeal...
...Cambridge Project's present members would care to put the case for government-related social science research in such wierdly millenarian terms as Dr. Pool's. But the notion that the morality of almost any government's actions is likely to be greater as its knowledge about the world increases- regardless of the social basis of the government and the social or economic interests which it represents- seems to be something like an ideological common denominator among the social scientists who are now gathering around the Cambridge Project. "The world," said Harvard Government professor Karl Dcutsch this week "is more...