Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politician, though heartened by the figures, still had to be shown. But not the stock mar ket. Investors have largely discounted falling profits; no sooner did Chrysler Corp. announce a 71% drop in earnings than Chrysler stock went up. What interests the market now is the general economic outlook. On Administration reassurances that it is going to get better, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose for seven straight trading sessions, closed last week...
...what extent this outlook came to dominate the mind of American statesmanship will become evident if we recall that just in the thirty-five years from 1898 to 1933 the United States government negotiated, signed and ratified a total of 97 international agreements, most of them bilateral ones, providing for the settlement of international disputes by arbitration and conciliation. This enormous diplomatic effort occupied much of the time of such eminent Secretaries of State as John Hay, Elihu Root, William Jennings Bryan, and Henry Stimson. The measure of realism behind it may be judged from the fact that the number...
...This outlook had, as an ideal for the future, its attractive, its appealing, sides; but intervening events have demonstrated, if they have demonstrated anything at all, that it is wholly inadequate as an approach to the great problems of twentieth-century international life...
...difference in 1968 will be that the moderates should be in a suf ficiently strong position to prevent such a battle and to select a candidate-whoever he may be-with a realistic chance of winning the election. Thus the most reassuring outlook for '68 is that whichever party and candidate may capture the presidency, the global and domestic commitments...
Those attitudes which have the most relevance for student political activity reflect quite strongly the failure of the communist regimes to make much progress in building the "new socialist man." Strongest evidence for this comes from surveys made in 1958 and 1961 on the world outlook of Warsaw students. These surveys indicated changes over this period in attitudes towards religion, socialism, and ideological, social, or political involvement...