Word: across
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pragmatist. On other occasions, Kennedy has seemed to be harking back to a 19th century form of liberalism. In his New York speech, he said: "We are making a clean break with the New Deal and even the 1960s. We reject the idea that Government knows best across the board, that public planning is inherently superior or more effective than private action. There is now a growing consensus, which I share, that Government intervention in the economy should come as only a last resort...
...floor, accompanied by half a dozen dark-suited Secret Service men, TV crews in the corridor snapped on their lights and correspondents crowded around to ask questions. All they got was a three-second glimpse of him closing the door. After a quick huddle with more aides, Kennedy popped across the hallway?on went the TV lights?and into the paneled Judiciary Committee hearing room. There was a hush in the audience and then an excited buzz. Kennedy walked quickly to his seat and rapped the committee into session. With his half-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, he read...
Events on that night of July 18-19, 1969, began with a cookout at a rented cottage on the island, which lies just across the channel from Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard...
Because the ferry to Edgartown had been shut down at midnight, the Senator swam across the 500-ft.-wide channel and walked to his inn. He changed into dry clothes and spoke briefly to the innkeeper. Gargan and Markham, meanwhile, returned to the cottage for the night. Following Kennedy's instructions, they told no one about the accident...
...participants raised questions of inclusion in the decision-making process. Sharp says, for example, that had it not been for "an 11th hour move," single-sex colleges might have been eliminated from Title IX, which regulates federal dollars for athletics. "When we look for ways to increase equal opportunity across the board," says the ACE's Shavlik, "single-sex institutions are often overlooked...