Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marginal existence by famine." Only the most extreme efforts will succeed in avoiding this end, and those efforts will be effective only if they are instituted immediately. As for the "quality of human life," the only sure way to obtain quality is by limiting quantity. If there exists a broad consensus among scientists, it is that the imperative of our age is the population dynamic, and that, if the end comes, it comes not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but rather with a birth...
...Berth. On Christmas Eve, as they trudged along the quays to midnight Mass, Cherbourgeois observed that the gunboat crews were busily stowing supplies. Some young Israelis were out scouring the city for stocks of everything from cold tablets and vitamin-C supplements to American cigarettes. Some of them, with broad grins, explained that they were leaving to celebrate Christmas in Israel...
...sense that capitalist societies are heading inexorably for more state planning and control and that socialist ones must inevitably allow for more decentralization, the convergence theory is true. It may well be that both Russia and the U.S. will come still closer to sharing a common economic model. But broad, perhaps unbridgeable differences will remain, particularly over the philosophic questions of the dreams and goals of the two societies...
...party set itself an ambitious goal-to take over the government by 1970. The main tactic was to expand the party's membership from a paltry 50,000, mostly drawn from trade unions, to a reasonably broad 500,000. The campaign proved a disaster of Fujian proportions. The old dogmas were not softened one whit. What is more, some new proposals-including one for an ultra-pacifist nonaggression pact with Washington, Moscow and Peking-so alarmed some members that they stopped paying their dues. The party...
...looks into his face than when one never sees him" [Dec. 5]. I seem to remember that Eichmann and other administrators of the "final solution" had little taste for witnessing the outcome of their executive orders. If only because the authority for acts of state ultimately resides in the broad consent of the people, we must apply to ourselves the same rule that we have with such grave innocence applied to criminals of war in the past. If animals did what we accuse these few of doing, we would destroy them. Yet we hesitate to condemn so quickly...