Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harrisburg, hasty judgments, formed in response either to panic or to glib reassurances that nothing much was amiss, could lock the nation into a misguided energy policy damaging to the health, welfare and productive strength...
...strength of this group is their size--several of the rowers could be heavyweights. As the image of Delta House and the Arabs indicate, their strength is not finesse, but they will not let their rough bladework get in their way either...
With that in mind and since Penn and Cornell are unknown quantities at this point in the season, the Crimson's strategy will be basically to row hard all the way. If Penn and Cornell follow suit by playing to Harvard's strength, the light should be able to wear down the other boats...
...ADMINISTRATION desperately needs--far more than the faculty--to resolve the strike quickly. Even if the faculty refuses to compromise on the remaining points, the trustees will be under a great deal of pressure to ratify the contract anyway. Faculty spokesmen, knowing and relishing their position of strength, have said they are willing to discuss minor ambiguities but that major rewording of the contract is out of the question. Just how much longer the strike will last is an open question, but it seems likely the administration will make the necessary concessions and end the strike fairly soon...
...strength of Galbraith's book comes from its criticism of current wisdom about mass poverty and U.S. government programs to combat it. He claims that the U.S. government and academics, liberals and conservatives have approached the poverty backwards, once they discovered that the problem existed. Uninterested in poverty relief until 1950, the U.S.'s sudden fascination with the problem at that point stemmed from a smug feeling of post-war cultural and economic supremacy combined with the belief that poverty opened doors for communist take-over...