Word: hardheadedness
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Lodge's decision left no void among Republicans running for Governor. In the wildest G.O.P. melee in a millennium, there are still six candidates trying for a shot at Democratic Governor John Dempsey, 47, who moved up from Lieutenant Governor last year, when Ribicoff hied himself off to Washington...
Few in Washington take these ideas seriously-if only because the Administration has opened up a broad offensive in the gold war that is already producing some preliminary signs of success. Washington wants all good men to come to the aid of the dollar by helping the U.S. to spend...
Limited Uses. These are small pegs for optimism, but they do suggest that the "new nations" are very far from lost either to the West or to reason. They have amply proved that they have no special claim to moral superiority simply because they are small or neutral. They are...
Since he was addressing a hardheaded audience, Ball conceded that certain industries will be hurt by tariff cuts. Some may need federal aid "to speed the transfer of the labor and capital into the more productive channels which the American economy constantly provides. But up to a certain limit of...
Politically, U Thant takes a hardheaded Western view of economics, while maintaining the Eastern mystic's preoccupation with spiritual values. He calls himself a "democratic socialist," and argues with feeling: "There is something wicked about a society in which a successful trader can make a fortune but a successful...