Word: vigor
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...instinct of the President and his advisers is correct to the extent that investment must be encouraged if the economy is to regain its vigor. The problem here is how to place capital in the hands of new entrepreneurs, much of whose investment will be in plant and whose dollars therefore will have the "multiplier" effect described by Keynes. (It is assumed--necessarily, through perhaps inaccurately--that such men exist, either independent of the large corporations, or within them, but anxious to be free of them...
...Secretary of the Interior, Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, who "not only moves forward with vigor, but does it in a manner that is not offensive...
...hour ultimatum to destroy all snowmaking machinery, and the Secretary of State makes his now-famous comment: "We're cheek to cheek, and I think the other fellow needs a shave." Concludes The New Yorker piece: "The 'shave' was administered-decisively, effectively, and with vigor...
...botanist, Sir Eric conducted research on hybrid vigor, plant ecology, and the growth and nutrition of duck weed. After the war, he wrote a series of papers on the growth of leaves...
With aid from du Pont and the Ford Foundation, among others, he was able to meet the competition of scholarships offered by other professionals schools. "The vigor of the campaign--for such it was--was rather unusual for an institution of higher learning," Sizer reports...