Word: underpinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberty unless there is economic liberty. The E.E.C. treaty concentrates not on a declaration of human rights but on the economics of the free society: it shall be based on consumer choice and fair competition, freer movement of capital and people. It is the only economic treaty to really underpin liberty. Extinguish free enterprise and you extinguish liberty...
...media. The Crimson has chosen to make a hero of Mr. Yates for an action which was not only irresponsible but illegal. Mr. Yates poses the question: "Why should I have to defer to someone else's definition of acceptable risk?" The answer lies in the moral values which underpin our system of law: the belief that human life is sacred and, therefore, the individual is not free to sacrifice...
This view may be dating rapidly, yet it serves to underpin Auchincloss's latest novel. The Dark Lady. It is a Social Register version of A Star Is Born-a tale of two women allied in a successful assault on wealth, fame and political power. The star is Elesina Dart, a beauty of good background who has gone through two marriages and flubbed one promising theatrical career. The impresario is Ivy Trask, a cynical, shrewd middle-aged fashion editor and social arbiter at Broadlawns, the Westchester estate of Judge Irving Stein, banker and art collector...
...anti-Americanism - particularly in Greece, where Washington is currently despised for its Turkish tilt over Cyprus. The danger to the U.S. and the Western alli ance in button-down Communism is that it could eventually lead to a weakening of NATO or the elimination of U.S. military bases that underpin the defenses of Western Europe...
Obviously, a stated commitment to the principle of "sex-blind" admissions without the recruitment and encouragement needed to underpin such a commitment is anything but progressive...