Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed by David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who pioneered TVA. The development plans are good, but their allotted revenues have sometimes been borrowed for other purposes, and the Shah himself wishes that there were more "visual impact" schemes to give his poverty-stricken people a feeling of hope. Despite large oil revenues, the Iranian economy has been crucially dependent on more than $300 million in aid pumped in by the U.S. since...
...upper class, socially defined, consists of between 300 and 500 families who are the remnants of the old Spanish hacienda-owning aristocracy. Across the gulf between rich and poor stretches the growing middle class, a healthy 9,000,000 strong, born of industry and fed by solid paychecks and hope. It is so new and changing that Mexicans vie to define it. A man enters the middle class-according to typical definitions-when...
...Hope. Critic Marty sees hope in the local parish, with its possibilities of maintaining the values of personality against mass society. "If the parish can be relieved of many pressures which it cannot sustain, it offers the most hopeful front for taking post-Protestant America and helping shape it as newly Christian America. It must be informed from the theological centers as it is not at present. As denominations and parishes 'take upon themselves the form of the servant' and . . . sacrificial living ... we shall see the liberation of God, the repersonalization of man, the judgment of a proud...
...been hitting bumpier and bumpier weather, is operating a load factor of 52% v. a break-even point of 54%. In the twelve months ended Sept. 30, the line lost $748,944; the year before it had a net profit of $2,484,369. National's main hope is new equipment to attract more passengers; it has orders for three Douglas DC-8 pure jets, another 23 turboprop Lockheed Electras. But its place on the production line is so far back that it will not get the first 400-m.p.h. Electras until six months after competitor Eastern puts...
...spiritual odyssey; no one else can make it for him, no ready-made belief can serve for each individual. The search is one for freedom-freedom from the demands of Odysseus' heart and mind. Kazantzakis seems to say: not until Odysseus is delivered from doubt, fear and even hope can he reach anything close to serenity. That he is never delivered does not matter; God may even be the search...