Word: strength
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...assumptions are necessary. First, at some point in the future, the black majority will gain control of the South African government and of the societal infranstructure. There is nothing really radical or debatable about such a belief. Black South Africans, because of the strength of their numbers alone, already posses a major criterion necessary for control...
Unfortunately, it is now uncertain whether even this limited progress will be achieved. Lobbying against the proposed treaty has become a Washington cottage industry in the past few months, as groups like the Committee on the present Danger and the Coalition for Peace Through Strength have mounted massive propaganda campaigns to persuade the public that will, if adopted, critically undermine national security. These groups and their advocates in the Senate--including, among others, Senators Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash) and Sam Nunn (D-Ga.)--have argued that the loss of American listening posts in Iran will make it impossible...
...individual copes with as a private person are knotty enough; public issues have grown immeasurably more complex. Government has long since subsumed science and technology into its realm, both as the fountainhead of its projects and as an object of its regulation. The calculations that measure national military strength are as impenetrable to the civilian-on-the-street as the formulas of the ancient alchemists. The surreal arithmetic of SALT might as well be the music of the spheres, for all the help it gives ordinary folks trying to get a clear picture of the country's real...
...composer. At his best, he adapted the Creole and plantation tunes of his native New Orleans, mixed them with the sinuous rhythms of Latin America, and produced piano works as fresh and insouciant as their titles were evocative: The Banjo, Bamboula, Souvenir de Porto Rico. On the strength of them, he stands as the precursor to the great line of American nationalists from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland. More's the pity, then, that when last week's program ran long, List modestly cut his sequence of three Gottschalk solo pieces...
With the longer distances, Yale's strength advantage could again prove decisive. As senior captain and stroke Gordie Gardiner said, "They're big and they're strong and they are going to be tough at four miles...