Word: loftier
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...Ronald Reagan loved to sing paeans to America's unique role as "a city on a hill" -- an inspiring model of democracy and free enterprise. Now that much of the world seems to be moving in a democratic direction, the U.S. should set its sights on an even loftier, more urgent mission: saving the planet...
When it finally flies, Japan's FSX fighter jet (top speed: 1,300 m.p.h.) will represent technology at its peak. But the aircraft may represent an even loftier accomplishment in diplomacy, since it has become a centerpiece in the friendly but fierce economic rivalry between the U.S. and Japan. For more than four years, the two governments have been negotiating a joint effort to develop a new generation of fighter jet that would patrol the island nation's shipping lanes and support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew...
...committee's struggle over Tower began some five weeks ago in a friendly fashion and on loftier issues. The members were aware that the FBI had extensively probed the twice-divorced Tower's personal life, including allegations that the onetime Senator had carried on flagrant affairs, even while serving as the chief U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva. But after George Bush, who was then President-elect, declared that Tower had been given a "clean bill of health" by the FBI and then nominated him to lead the Pentagon, those concerns temporarily subsided...
True Believer aspires to a loftier goal than the camp of L.A. Law or Night Court. With black-and-white flashbacks and and an overdose of overhead spiraling camera pans, True Believer attempts to be more than the B-level shlock it actually is. You aren't supposed to take the antics of T.V. lawyers Dan Fielding or Arnie Becker seriously. But you aren't supposed to laugh at Dodd...
Montana, one of only six 49ers on the active roster who have played on both Super Bowl champions, summed up the change in attitude from the Cinderella season in 1981 to the current team and its far loftier goals...