Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After that, De Sédouy and Harris were all set to release their picture-except that the country's two principal film distributors, Gaumont and Pathé, reversed an earlier decision and refused to book it. They were afraid, explained one distributor, that the film "would provoke public disorder...
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door-provided that adequate financing can be arranged to cover initial production and marketing expenses. As many an underfinanced entrepreneur has learned, the road to penury is paved with good inventions. Now there is an invention designed especially to provide backing for fledgling tycoons: the venture capital industry. After a decade or so of ups and downs, it is emerging as one of the most important sources of funds for new businesses...
...problem of opiate addiction through attempts at prohibition enforced by excessive criminal penalties, rather than through more logical and probably more effective medical and social approaches. The addict suffers an extraordinary compulsion to get hold of his drug, and the more zealously and effectively obstacles are placed in the path of his obtaining the substance he desperately seeks, the scarcer the drug becomes...
...path to a degree in medicine proved arduous. The second of four sons in a fatherless family, Robert Good had to earn his own way through the Depression by raking leaves, shoveling snow and running a newspaper route. Impressed by Good's ambition and industry, a Minneapolis businessman helped pay his way through medical school at the University of Minnesota...
Logic. If one aim of philosophy is to show a path to ethical behavior, Wittgenstein seems to have paved the way to a dead end. His own painful solution was to accept ethics as an act of faith, not logic. A bit like going around the world to get across the street. Why Wittgenstein devoted his life to pursuing the ineffable may not be explainable either, but at least it can be talked about. With caution and discrimination and color, Authors Janik and Toulmin attempt to show how Wittgenstein's theories grew out of the fertile decay...