Word: hardheadedness
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Lippmann peers at the conflict between East and West through old-fashioned eyeglasses. Unlike most people-who see the conflict as one of opposing principles and faiths-Lippmann sees it in terms of opposing national powers which can achieve a working relationship through diplomacy. At the core of his thinking...
Last week Wayne Taylor handed out a few bruises on his own account, in a 227-page report of a joint EGA-Department of Commerce mission. After spending ten weeks in Europe, studying methods of increasing European exports to the U.S., Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion...
When the company began to run out of money, Barbour found an angel in American Research & Development Corp., a venture-capital group of hardheaded New England businessmen (TIME, Aug. 19, 1946). With $150,000 of American Research's money, and the stock issue, Tracerlab was put on firm footing...
For the next two seasons Joe Barbao tried to get the Pirates to watch Stan play. A Cardinal scout got there first. Although he was shy about most things, 17-year-old Stan had seen enough poverty to be hardheaded about money, and he signed the contract with misgivings: the...
In their elaborate efforts to provide a worthy council hall, the French finally abandoned their plan of installing a marble copy of the Medici Venus directly above the speaker's rostrum. Explained French Architect Bernard Monnet: "It would have shocked the British." Instead of Venus, he chose a discreetly...