Word: idealizes
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Silent Gene. Thus the Balkanized, impoverished party finds O'Brien the ideal candidate to replace Fred Harris, who resigned last month as Democratic national chairman. Many party leaders argue that O'Brien, 52, is the only choice, insisting that only he can bridge the assortment of geographical and ideological chasms in the party...
...article said Bielanski had no definite plans but was considering signing the baseball contract. He has since decided to transfer to Stanford, where he feels the situation is ideal...
...Administration's ideal, says New Publius, is a "national localism." Such a notion, stated as a somewhat clumsy oxymoron, reopens the entire question of Federal power v. states' rights. For years, heirs of the New Deal have tended to dismiss states'-righters as rednecked Smerdyakovs. Shortly after New Publius circulated his paper, another White House speechwriter, Tom Charles Huston, 28, a former president...
...undeniable fact that celibacy is supported by nearly 1,000 years of ecclesiastical tradition, which ought not to be lightly overthrown. Biblical support for the church's rule rests in part on the person of Jesus-the model and ideal of the servant-priest-who spoke (in Matthew 19: 12) of "those who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake." Since the church prohibits castration, some scholars interpret the clause to mean a willing acceptance of the symbolic knife of voluntary chastity. Roman theologians contend that celibacy, if freely adopted, contributes to a deep...
Dual-Purpose Engines. For Detroit's automakers, the ideal solution would be for oil companies to produce unleaded gasoline at present high-octane ratings. That would require the oilmen to build many new refineries, which would cost their industry about $4 billion, according to the American Petroleum Institute. That cost would be passed on to the consumer in higher gas prices-perhaps 20 per gal.-atop the extra cost of pollution-control devices on the car. By contrast, unleaded gasoline at lower octane ratings can be produced with relatively little changeover or cost by the oil companies, and with...