Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Promote a free-market economy. "This Administration believes . . . that a most powerful influence over the years has been the accumulated effect of the industry and efforts of so many of our people to advance their own interests independently and in their own ways. This way of life has withstood wars and political manipulations and experiments of all kinds." ¶ Demonstrate more ingenuity in production, sales and distribution. Full production will create tough competition, but Americans have never feared competition. ¶ Manage that enormous legacy, the federal debt, with wisdom. The total debt is more than $267 billion, with $32 billion...
Since its formation, the Advisory Committee--the more publicized of the two groups--has withstood vigorous, albeit sporadic, attacks from opponents both to the right and to the left...
...TIME believe the original standards have successfully withstood a long test and have as much validity today as they had in the much more serene world of 1923. We still believe that the concept of purely "objective" reporting is not only unattainable but unrealistic. The editors of TIME have always set themselves a more workable goal: fairness, and a constant effort to blend the news into its own background. And while avoiding glib predictions of the future, TIME seeks to present the news in a way that will give its readers an intelligent estimate of what the future is likely...
Over the years, the corporations have withstood more than one setback. The Weimar Republic made dueling a criminal offense, but the practice still kept on. The Nazis banned the corporations, but they managed to survive. After the war, occupation authorities banned them again, but they merely went underground, and the rules against them began to relax...
...last document had not withstood the pressures of time and the elements as well as the others. It was sealed, perhaps permanently. But a 26-line fragment led experts to believe that the scroll contained the legendary Book of Lamech...