Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protecting the price of the stock." But some industries have persisted too long in this rearguard action-and steel is one of them. While earnings dropped year after year and the industry lagged in modernization, steelmen kept rewarding stockholders at the same level in order to present an outward picture of stability. Result: dividends amounted to 50.1% of profits in 1957 but accounted for 79.8% of profits in 1961, when ten steel companies finally slashed their payments...
...Outward, for centuries, flowed the tide of British Empire; back, in hurried decades, it ebbed. On every foreign strand that it touched, the receding tide has left a church uniquely English, yet catholic enough to survive in any climate. It is grand and symbolic that as a typical consequence, there should be in the South Pacific a bishop who follows the ancient Church of England custom by styling himself Norman New Zealand. Empire is gone; the church remains...
...first book was a monumental failure, and of it Yevtushenko writes: "Who could care about my pretty rhymes and striking images if they were nothing but curlicues decorating a vacuum?" So he turned outward, and began to become aware of "the beautiful ... world of real people." At the same time, the young Yevtushenko was deeply imbued with "the romantic ideals of the workers and soldiers who stormed the Winter Palace in 1917," and looked upon the world "with a revolutionary's scornful gaze...
After four decades of broody isolation, and seemingly pro-German neutrality in World War II (although in their contrary way, many Irish volunteered for the British army), a newly outward-looking Ireland has acquired international influence out of all proportion to its size or political power. In the United Nations, the nonaligned Irish -led by Ambassador Frederick Boland, who was President of the General Assembly in the time of Khrushchev's shoe-banging tantrum-are universally respected. In the Congo, where 5,000 Irish troops have served-and 26 died -with the U.N. peacekeeping mission, their probity and discipline...
...last category--which involved the part-time appointment of school administrators to the faculty--comprises the School's outward "face" to the schools, just as its relations with the University and the FAS form its inward face...