Word: longrun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While it is true that one cannot fully appreciate the rationale behind apartheid and its seeming abuses without actually living in South Africa, political common sense leads one to suspect that tolerance before a moderate such as Luthuli would contribute more to the longrun stability of Africa than suppression and a subsequent build-up of resentment and latent violence. Apartheid relies on an almost feudal concept of society, of lords and meek, obedient serfs (Africans of all ages are referred to as "boys," according to the New York Times) which would seem untenable, given the fact of industrialization, no matter...
...Prince and the Pauper: For its one-night stand on the DuPont show, CBS's 90-minute version of Mark Twain's soufflé of make-believe, abounded in virtues that spell "longrun" to Hollywood-a sumptuous production, an exciting, neatly organized story, topflight performances soundly directed. Producer David Susskind, searched seven weeks in the U.S. and abroad to find a pauper (Johnny Washbrook) to match Rex (The King and I) Thompson's prince, coddled his show through three weeks of rehearsal. Amid a staggering 19 sets, Director Daniel Petrie moved his cameras and 100 players with...
...Agriculture Department asked Congress to eliminate the escalator clause in the support law before serious harm is done to the "longrun interests of our farm people." But last week influential farm-bloc Congressmen passed the word that there will be "no action this year." On commodity markets, cotton futures jumped $1 to $3.65 a bale in a single clay as cottonmen got set for higher prices and higher supports...
...Council's most important one. Although results from the long range reports and recommendations may not be immediately apparent, the ultimate effect on University policy should be stressed. Whatever also the Council undertake to do, it should not be done at the sacrifice of counseling the administration on the longrun student view...
...even Washington, can determine exactly how the nation's wealth should be divided up. Capital must have incentive; profit is quite all right as long as it is a "reasonable" one and is used to increase production and employment. CJ The "longrun common good" is of primary importance-not just the "good of a particular economic class...