Word: stressed
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Pessimists about American independence further stress the sometimes overlooked fact that land transportation throughout the Colonies is still slow (four days by stagecoach from Boston to New York), and there is not a single bank comparable to the great financial institutions of Europe. "For what purpose were [the Colonists] suffered to go to that country unless the profit of their labor should return to their masters here?" asked the Marquis of Carmarthen in the House of Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine...
Need For Cooperation. No ringing declarations, no grand schemes for promoting international economic stability will probably emerge from the meeting. As after Rambouillet, the communiqué will undoubtedly stress the need for cooperation among the nations and promise that it will be forthcoming. But the major American purpose at the economic summit will be to set some hard terms for that cooperation...
...terms evangelical and fundamentalist are sometimes used interchangeably, but they have different connotations. Evangelicalism derives from Martin Luther's emphasis on the gospels and salvation through faith. Fundamentalism as a movement emerged shortly after 1900 and put renewed stress on miraculous aspects of the life of Christ. The groups may overlap since both fundamentalists and evangelicals emphasize the authority of the Bible rather than the church, but fundamentalists tend to be more conservative, both theologically and politically...
...leader and autocratic Pope Pius XII threatened to excommunicate all Italians who voted Communist, the Vatican is taking a more overt part in an Italian campaign. Addressing a national conference of bishops last month, Pope Paul VI used the personal pronoun I instead of the pontifical we to stress his interest in the election. He obliquely exhorted Catholic voters to remain united behind the traditional Catholic party. At a weekly audience, Paul used Christ's post-resurrection words to his apostles, "Remain, remain in my love"-a not terribly subtle appeal to Italian voters to vote their Christian principles...
...Bilalian News, formerly Muhammad Speaks, claims a circulation of 583,000). For most of its 67 years, the Amsterdam News has catered to the middle-class aspirations of Harlem's business and professional people. It is sold 90% on the newsstand, and its blazing red front-page headlines stress crime and gossip. But the rest of its news comes in quieter hues: close attention to black politics, knowledgeable reviews of black art, music and books, a World of Work page that offers stories on the movements of blacks in Government and corporate positions, personality profiles, accounts of business successes...