Word: path
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...cherish most and work hardest to preserve. They also sense that they should not be too content with their restrictions; they want to understand more than their experience allows. In Promise of Rain, a father recognizes the moment when his youngest son, almost grown and increasingly remote, finds the path his life will follow: "I was 50, but I had just discovered what it means to see the world through another man's eyes. It is a discovery you are lucky to make at any age, and one that is no less marvelous whether you make...
...critical point for the future of the American economy. Substantial progress has been made in the past four years in putting the economy on a path that can provide a rising standard of living for everyone. Inflation has been brought under control, incentives for saving and investment have been strengthened, and the burden of the Government on the private economy has been lightened. But that progress and the current bright prospects for the future can easily be destroyed by fiscal irresponsibility. The next six months will test whether our political system can produce the tough fiscal legislation that...
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Wolff's arrest prompted a flurry of press attention in recent days, both in Boston and Texas. Most of the stories trumpeted his Harvard background and the unusual path he followed since finishing his degree...
...back on a growth path, Araskog has launched a major offensive in the U.S. telecommunications and office-equipment markets. The company has long been a major supplier of sophisticated telecommunications gear in Western Europe but was effectively shut out of the American market until last year's breakup of AT&T. Now ITT hopes to sell an advanced switchboard, known as System 12, to some of the new regional Bell companies. However, it faces formidable competition from several firms, including AT&T, GTE and Northern Telecom. In the office-equipment field, ITT has come out with a personal computer...