Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends, and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people; the Russian centers all the authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude...
...Niger, the men in New Zealand's back hills are all employees of a single company, Royal Dutch/Shell, the world's second biggest oil company - after Standard Oil (New Jersey) - and by far the most international in scope, organization and spirit. Controlled in partnership by two holding companies, one Dutch (Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.) and one British (Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd.), Royal Dutch/Shell is a two-headed creature that owns or partially owns 500 worldwide subsidiaries. Known simply as "Shell" to the public and to the oil industry as "the Group," it produces 14% of the free...
...danger about which all voters might justly be concerned would be the possible election of a Catholic unsophisticated in his faith. The church holds no binding political power over its members, nor does it enjoy impeccability in this sphere. Certainly an educated Catholic is aware of the narrow scope of the Pope's infallibility and of how seldom he speaks ex cathedra. A great concern of the truly enlightened electorate ought to be the possibility of a candidate lacking in religious convictions...
...running to more than $300,000 a year. Sahl, who delights in proving that almost all popular heroes have clay heads to match their feet, owned up to some personal idols. On his list: Mark Twain ("a prism through which the young country expressed itself"), Herman Melville ("he had scope and virility, didn't internalize"), Tom Paine, Albert Einstein, Edmund Wilson, Theseus, George Bernard Shaw. Allowing that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was "a father figure" to him, Sahl said that he regards Dwight Eisenhower as "a stepfather figure...
...move to Washington in 1800, only 126 bureaucrats made the trek by coach and horseback, while state papers went by ship. Brasilia will have 120,000 citizens next week and 500,000 within ten years. No new capital-Ankara, Canberra or New Delhi-compares with it for scope and speed...