Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blitz Trips. Rhodes, 57, who won office in 1962 by pledging to put the budget in shape, levy no new taxes, and expand employment, is a man obsessed with what jobs mean. As he sees it, unemployment is the root of most social ills and thus is the paramount political issue. Last fall, running for a second four-year term, the Governor plastered the state with two-word stickers: "Rhodes-Jobs." This week, when he is sworn in after a smashing re-election win, he can point to a remarkable record. During his tenure Ohio has added 330,000 jobs...
Paradoxically, 1966 has been by far the most prosperous year in U.S. history, yet has produced considerable concern about the future of business. Though production, profits and personal income jumped impressively, the economy developed some bothersome growing pains. And money was the root of many of these evils...
...consensus of what constitutes the good or welfare of man" that I consider "the root source of morality" but the good of man itself. The demands of man's welfare constitute natural moral law whether they are recognized by many...
Whom does a New York sports fan root for these days? The pro-football Giants have turned into dwarfs (see col. 2), and the Jets are strictly subsonic. The Knicks are to pro basketball what Mrs. Miller is to soul music. Baseball's onceproud Yankees are a burnt-out case: they finished tenth last year. And the Mets wound up ninth only because they play in another league with the even worse Chicago Cubs...
...society, who are the victims of economic and racial injustice, look at the church as merely a support for the status quo. At the same time, a sense of their own past failures to act on Christian beliefs has led many churchmen to the other extreme, scorning the spiritual root of action. This lopsided view, said Cox, prevents many from hearing what "God has done and continues to do for man" in terms of personal salvation...