Word: reflecting
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...some extent, the fears about Home reflect Britain's long and jealous struggle to establish political democracy and protect it from the monarchy and nobility. The last peer to form a government in Britain was Lord Salisbury in 1895. Since then, in deference to the unwritten rule that the Prime Minister cannot sit in the "Other Place," as M.P.s call the House of Lords, party leaders twice have reluctantly passed over titled favorites for second-running commoners. In 1923 Stanley Baldwin wrested the job from Lord Curzon; in 1940 Winston Churchill edged out Lord Halifax. Today the old rule...
...freewheeling editor, Emile Gauvreau,* to implement the pledge of "90% entertainment and 10% news." Gauvreau accumulated circulation "by pushing into the back of my mind all that I had learned about the value of constructive news" and by studying the techniques of the News. The Mirror continued to reflect a rash of stunts calculated to hook the reader: Yo-Yo contests, picture puzzles, yards of crime coverage in an era when New York streets rang with the din of gang wars. By 1932, Mirror circulation passed 500,000. But the News passed...
Taking on the Alliance for Progress, Goldwater ran down the list of Latin American countries where, he insisted, revolution and continued instability reflect Kennedy's failures. The Alliance, he said, has brought "no new unity, no true alliance and no real progress." The Administration has polished off Latin American problems-"as indeed the whole world's problems"-as "political sloganry. They are not solved; they are merely salved, by talk, talk, and more talk. Patch a crisis there; prescribe a pill somewhere else; make a concession here, there, the next place; promise, promise, promise; spend, spend, spend; elect...
...basic fact about Latin America is not that the people are excluded from politics but that they are excluded from the economy. A legacy of the Spanish colonial land-holding system, only a tiny fraction of the population share in any form of economic life above subsistence. Prices reflect this stratification. While commodities such as food and clothes are more expensive than in the United States, services are cheap--a maid gets paid $20 a month. Over 30 per cent of the population is unemployed...
Today, after 32 years of dictatorship, the Dominican people have been asked to chart their own future. Many of their present concerns reflect a society allowed to examine itself for the first time. Involved in such thought are the most fundamental questions of man and his relation to society. A chief issue of the summer, for example, became whether illegitimate children deserve equal status under...