Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airlines' "youth fares," which allow passengers from twelve to 22 to fly for half fare on a standby basis or for two-thirds fare with a reserved seat. Prodded partly by ailing intercity bus lines, Present found the discount fares "unjustly discriminatory." He did not reckon with the power of American students when they feel it is they who have suffered the discrimination...
...vote would really end his rule. Others, long accustomed to the Gaullist unexpected, wondered whether it was really for keeps, or whether De Gaulle might not still somehow come thundering back into the arena. Above all, the French, the inveterately rationalist sons and daughters of Descartes, set out to reckon a France without De Gaulle and to speculate about the successor who must lead it into the future...
...reckon at the time that some 2000 or more of our students would show an immediate sympathy with the SDS because the police were called...
...achieving success than with avoiding failure." He sees the world as neither benevolent nor malign but neutral, and he never doubts his power to hold his own in the marketplace. He is as readily bored by routine as he is challenged by risk taking - and he knows how to reckon the odds. Such a man is obviously valu able to any economy, but he is also rare. Is there a way to develop him? In Motivating Economic Achievement, to be published this month by The Free Press of Manhattan, Psychologists McClelland and David G. Winter of Wesleyan University argue that...
...shortages will develop. However that problem turns out, Ceauşescu's biggest economic gamble is political. He banks on his faithful adherence to Communist political doctrine-and a police state-to outweigh Moscow's annoyance with his trade ties to the West. Rumania's leaders reckon that they can and must take that risk if they are to build a modern state...