Word: rearguards
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...point out forcefully and persuasively those government policies or actions that prevent the private economy from achieving its full potential and making its maximum contribution to the common good. But to be effective, the approach must be forward-looking and realistic?not mere nostalgia for the past or a rearguard action to preserve positions of narrow self-interest." If businessmen do not develop such an approach, warns David Rockefeller in his earnest and low-voiced way. or "if they do not concern themselves with the full spectrum of problems civilization faces, they will find themselves, a few years hence, living...
...fact remained that with last week's Algiers truce, reason was at last reasserting itself, and terror was fighting a rearguard action...
Died. Guy Wiggins, 78, rearguard landscape painter and National Academician, whose gay limning of snowstorms and hansom cabs held its charm-especially as a favorite of Sunday Painter Dwight D. Eisenhower-long past the representational heyday; of kidney disease; in St. Augustine...
...life abuses, he and ex my plains, his aim is to improve, not destroy, the Soviet society. Says he: "The banner is undefiled. even though some of its bearers stumbled in the mire." Evtu shenko and other literary gadflies resemble a loyal opposition, whose foe is the Stalin ist rearguard in Moscow and Peking ; they have been called the New Left. Says an anti-Stalinist Soviet official: "Evtushenko & Co. are not a cancer, just a head cold." Pancake Poet. And so. in a way. Evtushenko's courage has not been put to the severest test, as Pasternak...
...Soviet Union has challenged the world with a dynamic ideology and an expansionist foreign policy. The United States has responded to this challenge by fighting a rearguard action around the world. It has merely opposed communism . . . Such a policy would seem to be required by the "logic" of the arms race . . . But it is hardly adequate to cope with the real danger of Soviet expansion...