Word: need
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life for everyone is enough of a struggle. Human beings need a religion based on compassion and understanding, as opposed to one that emphasizes the threat of hell. Catholicism will truly be tried when it unshackles the compact majority and forces it to make its own decisions on matters of faith and morals. The hierarchy may discover that this majority would indeed be harder on itself than the institution would ever dare...
...CHARLES BABBAGE (In a letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Mathematician Babbage took issue with Tennyson's lines, "Every minute dies a man,/Every minute one is born." In so doing, this eminent specialist proved his case, but magnificently missed the point): I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world's population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas the total is constantly on the increase. In the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows: "Every...
...self-sufficient. It is not yet in real balance of payments difficulties. The crisis of the franc was primarily created by the lure of volatile capital funds into the mark by speculators who believed it was about to be revalued. In strict and narrow economic terms, France does not need a devaluation...
...complete its withdrawal from the island of Bahrain and the Tru-cial States along the Gulf in 1971, and so the frail but oil-rich little sheikdoms provide a tempting target. Supporters of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser seek to dominate the desert land; the Russians at present need no oil, but would like to deny the oil to the West. Soviet ships now ply the Indian Ocean, and early this year nosed into the Persian Gulf on courtesy visits. With such forces on the prowl, it is no time for disputes among Persian Gulf neighbors; yet until last...
Love is now dying between the judge and the amendment. During the 1960s, he argues, it has served to protect murderers, rapists and bagmen. It has worked to prevent police from getting the information they need to protect life and property. He indicts both legal scholars and the U.S. Supreme Court for turning the Fifth into "an ultimate article of faith in respect to which compromise is impossible...