In his grandscheme, this economic development could be achieved without the evils of capitalism.
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Twelve composers were shortlisted to compete for a grandprize.
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Randtook special care to skewer liberals throughout the novel.
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Randwas a favorite content provider for business owners who sought to spread the gospel of free enterprise.
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Randopposed civil rights to the extent that civil rights leaders advocated government intervention to achieve their goals.
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Randwas also a vigorous opponent of campus political activism and lifestyle experimentation.
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Randwas the most vigorous, but not the sole, expositor of this argument.
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Randlater published an essay based on the lecture, from which these quotations are taken.
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Randeagerly awaited the reviews in 1957, but she was to be sorely disappointed.
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Randwas particularly vexing because she was only partially wrong.
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Randinsisted that the only effective defense of capitalism was a wholehearted one.
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Randforced both writers to consider how a creed oriented to transcendence would respond to the mundane realities and potentially devastating outcomes of the marketplace.
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Rand's world view was fundamentally optimistic, and her novel showed mankind, guided by rationality alone, achieving heroic deeds.
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The first is the state of the economy and the weakrand.
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Its profits in 1983 rose by almost one third over the previous year to 200 millionrand—about £107 million.
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