Word: vigorousness
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...little talk about those who do the bulk of the governance in this country. While the Senate and the House are arguing with White House, local politicians all over the country are quietly and persistently attacking the nation's toughest problems--poverty, homelessness, crime and education--with creativity and vigor...
Idealism is useful inasmuch as it forces us to define our values and love them enough to fight for them. But it cannot be an excuse to sidestep the grim realities of war. We cannot allow our idealism to replace our vigor. By promising to fight we have to fight with our whole hearts...
Were Keynes alive today he would surely admire the vigor of the U.S. economy, but he would also notice that some 40% of the global economy is in recession and much of the rest is slowing down: Japan, flat on its back; Southeast Asia, far poorer than it was just two years ago; Brazil, teetering; Germany, burdened by double-digit unemployment and an economic slowdown; and declining prices worldwide for oil and raw materials...
...celebrity, although when she points out the history of her house in Roxborough, a house my great-grandparents built, it feels like a monument. But it isn't, because Grammy is not a millionaire. Neither is my grandfather, although for some reason Harvard pursues them both with enough vigor for her to remark to me about how sorry she is she can't give. Then we laugh...
...magazine's only rookie editor, do not quite understand their vigor. I do not respect deadlines for deadlines' sake. But then, I did not experience the frightening era when TJ and Drake played parents to this 24, 20 or sometimes (back in their guard) 16-page baby. I've only caught whispered hints of the family's traumatic memories, but it seems that, once upon a time, deadlines didn't exist. Edits happened on Tuesday nights, and Scrutiny concepts materialized (or not) a week before they had to appear on your doorstep (or not). Plagued with fear and guilt...