Word: onwardness
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...South African Trade Unions have also expressed misgivings about working with a party that bears the stigma of apartheid. The leader of the Democratic Party, Tony Leon, says there are many members of the New National Party who would like to stay with the Democratic Alliance. "We're going onward and forward," he says. "It is obvious to everyone now that the N.N.P. is about to disappear into oblivion...
...only nod to tradition: nothing about his speech is typical of a Japanese politician seeking votes. "I will carry out reforms that no other parties have dared to touch," Koizumi shouts, the wind whipping his famous locks, helicopters with TV crews whirring overhead. "We will march onward knowing we must better our future, though surely we will feel pain...
...reaching Mecca a personal goal, a secret motivation driving Zheng He onward? In his various writings, left on stone stelae scattered about his travels, Zheng He makes clear that imperial hubris was best left ashore: the success of these voyages depended on knowing his place between heaven and earth, on paying homage to the many gods worshiped by people along the way, starting with the constantly burning incense to Chinese sea goddess Tianfei. I jot down a note to myself: when the next typhoon approaches, light incense for Tianfei aboard my junk - and be friendly to any woman...
...their headline-happy hearts, using his impending exit from this mortal coil as an excuse to bloviate on their favorite topics—the (im)morality of the death penalty, the perils of home-grown government haters, the dangers of terrorism, the inadequacies of the criminal justice system and onward down the list...
...Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut, you see, was in grave danger of being forgotten. Sure, the Republican-run House was marching faithfully onward, passing the overall budget resolution by a party-line vote Wednesday and two parts of the Bush tax cut - the marriage-penalty reduction and the doubling of the child-care tax credit - on Thursday. Then the Ways and Means Committee went and did likewise with estate-tax repeal...