Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost we had to deal out in fatality. We did not drop what we might have dropped onto Hanoi. By this reasoning, nonnuclear bloodshed is forbearing and almost virtuous...
While consumer prices are unlikely to continue dropping indefinitely, the March decline was not simply some statistical aberration. It came after nearly half a year of steadily sliding inflation. Instead of the vicious cycle of ever higher costs, the economy has now entered a virtuous cycle of declining inflation. Says Data Resources Chairman Otto Eckstein: "We still have not seen the full impact of declining mortgage rates turn up in the CPI figures. Consequently, I expect to see at least one or two more months of deflation this year...
...sure, Jesus offers the downtrodden some consolation: in the afterlife, things will be reversed, and the virtuous poor will have their rewards, and the evil sinner his punishment. But so long as they are alive on the earth, the injunction is to turn the other check and await God's justice. (Jesus gives the reader a small foretaste of divine righteousness when he curses a fig tree, which promptly withers...
...ears a bit too large for the rest-the effect being scholarly, not comical. Kim Seng has a special interest in France these days because he has recently learned that his older brother is there. He studies diligently, hoping to join his brother. He believes that knowledge makes people virtuous...
...called judgmental," she says, laughing. "The whole book is an indictment.... Why doesn't somebody say, `You can't go around calling people scoundrels; that is not the way you deal with history.' And writing a whole book in order to prove that you are the most virtuous person...