Word: vigorousness
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...ailing little Seat (a Spanish Fiat) dubbed Rocinante, the newly elevated monsignor and his Communist companion Sancho set out for Madrid, a city that neither has seen for many years. Like Spain itself since the death of the Generalissimo, these innocents hurtle into the 20th century with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest...
...controversy. In 1975, during a deep recession, Democrats in Congress charged that the board's chairman, Arthur Burns, who served from 1970 to 1978, had made the downturn worse by keeping too tight a grip on the money supply. His successor, G. William Miller, was attacked with equal vigor later on for the opposite reason: pumping too much money into the economy during the Carter years and thus fueling inflation...
...table here that I would like to respond to. The first on the question of nuclear superiority. It may be the case that the quest for nuclear superiority by either the Soviet Union or the United States is futile. But I think it will be pursued with all due vigor by both sides...
...openly defended the Camp David agreements. But Camp David cannot be only a separate peace between Egypt and Israel, postponing a response to the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people. Time is not on the side of peace in that area. Peace must be promoted without delay and with vigor along the line strongly supported in the Inter-Parliamentary Union [an association of parliamentarians from around the world]: reciprocal and simultaneous recognition between the state of Israel and Palestinian representatives. Anyone who objects to Palestinian representatives may one day find it impossible to have a dialogue with anyone...
Life in the Ivory Tower is far from placid--the vigor Bok shows in addressing difficult issues deserves praise. The continued use of phrases like "notwithstanding" notwithstanding, the book is clearly written and provocative, which will come as a welcome surprise to those who have slogged through his open letters...