Word: 1960s
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...abatements are not an entirely new phenomenon. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s some states and a few municipalities hit upon the idea that they could encourage local businesses to expand by offering a partial rebate of additional property taxes or user fees that such an expansion might incur...
Where the programs of the 1960s and 1970s might be characterized as fertilizing one's economic garden, those of today resemble nothing more than rustling your neighbors' cattle...
Wenner made a distinction between his youth andhis adulthood, saying that "the role of the youngis to challenge, and older people have anotherrole." He also claimed that the counterculture ofthe 1960s has "merged with the center" and that itis now "impossible for there to be acounterculture...
...early 1960s, no one would have thought Joseph Ratzinger would become the enforcer of conservatism. At the Second Vatican Council, from 1962 to 1965, Ratzinger and Kung were young theological stars advising the West German contingent. In those heady days, Ratzinger and Kung applauded from the sidelines as Joseph Cardinal Frings, the Archbishop of Cologne, electrified the council by calling the prosecutorial tactics of the very office Ratzinger now leads "a cause of scandal to the world." Ratzinger is said to have ghostwritten most of that speech...
...Booker judges could possibly have been thinking. For Paddy Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy of guilty glee...