Word: vigorously
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...diplomats were surprised by that cautious reaction. Said one U.S. officer in Moscow: "There has been an amazing lack of vigor, courage and activity on the part of the business community in backing up Crawford...
Brown, however, emphasized the need for a new SALT agreement, a theme that has run consistently through Administration speeches. "We are pursuing that goal with undiminished vigor," Brown stressed, even though the nation's "basic objectives of strategic deterrence, adequate stability and equivalence are overriding...
Since productivity is a key indicator of a nation's economic vigor, the figures issued last week by the Labor Department made sober reading. According to the study, 25 of 66 major industrial groups showed outright declines in the hourly output of their workers in 1977. As a whole, the rate of rise in productivity in the manufacturing sector slowed markedly last year to only 2.2%, vs. 6.8% in 1976. The biggest drops were in clay-working (down 7.4%), grain-milling (7.1%) and footwear (4.3%) industries. Productivity in the coal industry fell...
...prominent Polish intellectual. "Before Carter, almost all contacts were government-to-government and always with an eye to Moscow. Now the U.S. is treating us as an important nation in our own right and an increasingly pluralistic one at that. I hope Carter pursues this policy with even more vigor...
...objecting not just to the size of their taxes but to how the money is being spent. Today unbounded bureaucracy, consuming ever more of the national income, is a problem endemic to the Western world. A fundamental question is how to support a huge welfare state without crippling the vigor of the free economy that makes it all possible ?the eagle that lays the golden eggs of welfare...