Word: partially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...putting money into nuclear power companies. Singing the antinuclear anthem, You Are My Sunshine, the protesters surrounded the New York Stock Exchange and tried to keep brokers from entering. Police arrested 1,045 demonstrators, and business at the exchange went on as usual. Nonetheless, the antinuclear forces claimed a partial victory. "We've sent a message to the country," insisted Edward Cyr, 23, of Boston, as he tossed leaves, symbolizing nuclear waste, from inside a 10-ft. paper model of a nuclear plant cooling tower...
...number of policy issues that could change the structure of the nation's energy institutions. Talk rose in Washington of increasing the taxes that oilmen must pay, of putting limits on profits and keeping controls on prices, perhaps ultimately of breaking up the companies or moving toward partial nationalization. There was not much discussion that holding down profits might also reduce exploration and production, that holding down, prices would fire up demand for even more oil imports. At the same time, the U.S. may have to move toward more dependence on foreign oil because a major new report cast...
...suggested government-sponsored sports programs and concerts with audience dancing as partial solutions to the "repressive milieu" in Massachusetts...
...paid a partial price for his apostasy: sneers, vilification, few invitations to literary parties. Those who attacked him assumed an attitude of moral superiority. In an atmosphere of growing intellectual conformity, rational debate became irrelevant. During a discussion among antiwar protesters, for example, one participant expressed fear that the Communists might take over Viet Nam if the U.S. withdrew. Jason Epstein, who helped launch the New York Review of Books, scornfully responded: "So you like to see little babies napalmed." End of discussion...
...toward either isolationism or global intervention had to be cured by making judgments according to some more permanent conception of national interest. It was no use rushing forth impetuously when excited, or sulking in our tent when disappointed. We would have to learn to reconcile ourselves to imperfect choices, partial fulfillment, the unsatisfying tasks of balance and maneuver...