Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of man is sterner (than that of women). He, with superior strength and superior courage, breasts nature in her ruggedness, and wrings from her silent bosom, with the sweat of his brow the raw material...by which the long contest with death is made possible...
...standing shoulder to shoulder. Then a series of political meetings between Carter's domestic tacticians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell fed riveting (even exaggerated) language into Carter's speeches. Brzezinski, back from China and enjoying new resonance with his President, hit the airwaves via Meet the Press with still sterner talk. Although he went along with the tougher approach, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance moved from Cabinet Room to presidential office counseling his brand of calm deliberation, which in some ways is closer to Jimmy Carter's true nature. Vance's soothing hand could be felt in the rush...
...Murray Weidenbaum -figure that unless the Government can reduce the growth of spending and the budget deficit, Carter's latest anti-inflation campaign, aimed at jawboning down prices and wages, will fail. Indeed, Weidenbaum argues that the Administration's drive is making businessmen fearful of sterner price guidelines ahead. So they are motivated to raise now "rather than be caught with their prices down...
...stirring their rhetoric. The Panama Canal treaty may be the most prominent concern of the moment, but the movement is thriving on such life-style issues as abortion, pornography and gay rights. In general, the resurgent right inveighs against a slackness of standards and urges a return to a sterner morality-a personal message that seems to be welcomed by more and more of the electorate...
Those concerns arose largely because Carter had appeared to shift ground in his Middle East policy. During the campaign, his stress was on help for Israel. As President, he has taken a sterner line, suggesting that Israel withdraw from almost all occupied territory and calling rather generally for a homeland for the Palestinians. At last week's meeting he said very little that he had not said before-somewhere, some time -though now the emphasis was back on help for Israel. Certainly that pleased his audience, but all those zigs and zags might lead to confusion later...