Word: statesmen
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...shrewdly tied his fortunes to those of S & Ls, which had just won authority to make loans up to 90% of the cost of a house but were often hesitant to take such a risk. To make sure that S & Ls got the message, Karl soon persuaded eight elder statesmen of the industry to join his board of directors. M.G.I.C.'s profits have climbed steadily ever since, reaching $4,200,000 last year even though M.G.I.C. sets aside half its income from premiums as loss reserves...
...preceded independence. But Kenya's new national dignity permitted the reconciliation of the British and their former colonials. And Jomo Kenyata, at first bitterly condemned by the British for leading the notorious Mau-Maus, now sports a white cabinet minister and has turned into one of Africa's elder statesmen...
Outland was next, and she followed the lead of New Zenith as usual. We statesmen and diplomats understand that situation...
More than Rogers, Hope has become the friend of politicians and statesmen, tycoons and sportsmen. These are the public figures at whom he tees off at a banquet or on television; yet they cannot wait to tee off with him on the links the next day. He kids the starch out of them, and they feel better for it; a needle from Hope becomes an emblem instead of a scar...
...fact that the secularist syndrome is prevalent among Protestants, who are now seeking "to assume decisions that belong in the realm of the state." Ramsey argues that "not even the 'magisterium' of the Roman Catholic Church has in recent centuries, if ever, gone so far in telling statesmen what is required of them...