Word: sole
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Over 80 per cent of the island's population, including Munoz himself, is Catholic, but fewer than one-fourth practice, and the power of the Church is relatively small. The Christian Action Party, formed this summer under unofficial Church sponsorship for the sole purpose of defeating Munoz Marin, won only 6.5 per cent of the popular vote...
...sole end and purpose of all production," said Economist Adam Smith, is the consumer. Last week U.S. business, watching the consumer like a hopeful but apprehensive parent, might have varied Adam Smith's dictum to read that the U.S. consumer is the master key to what will happen to production-and how much will be sold-in the months ahead. What business saw was a consumer growing steadily more cautious about his purchases, but still buying at a rate that is helping to steady the economy...
Since the governor exercises sole authority over the trustees who institute MTA policy, either John A. Volpe or Joseph D. Ward would be in a position to negotiate sale with the University. In the past the Administration has offered as much as million for the site, where it hopes construct a tenth House...
...Perhaps they even came away from the rally comforted by the knowledge that there are some others who see the imminent danger of a nuclear war and of pushbutton annihilation. But they had not been alarmed or thoroughly shaken, they had not been made to feel strongly enough the sole and absolute imperative of preventing such a war at all costs...
Able and needy students, so the story goes, are the sole beneficiaries of the nation's $100 million annual college scholarship kitty. Last week this legend got a hard bounce from John L. Holland, research "director of the National Merit Scholarship Corp., biggest dispenser of private scholarship money in the land. In College and University, Holland argues that too much money is going to conformists with little creative talent and often enough money already...