Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essential that our leaders be equipped with the quality of stability, a trait the Senator has clearly demonstrated he does not possess. Following the tragic event on Martha's Vineyard, Senator Kennedy demonstrated his inability to act with clarity of mind in the face of personal crisis. The legal advice at his elbow was not worthy of that respected profession. It worries me that this young man would be no better advised when the safety of my fellow Americans is involved. The grief that has plagued the Kennedy family is sorely regretted, but in the interests of our national...
...think that Americans are far more ready to act for environmental quality than public action to date indicates. A survey of state bond elections that we conducted recently indicates that most Americans not only want to clean up but are willing to pay the price. In the last five years, 17.6 million citizens of nine states have voted on state bonding for water-pollution control. A majority in each state and a total of 11.7 million-two out of three-said, in effect, "Yes, tax me more for clean water...
...forward in this field in a generation." To appease conservatives, Republican Nixon spoke of "investment," of "startup costs" to get the engine of social rehabilitation going, of work as "part of the American character." He was almost apologetic about the need to spend more federal funds initially. Failure to act, he said, would be more expensive in the long run in both human and economic terms. He underscored the decentralizing features of his plan. His welfare and revenue-sharing proposals, Nixon said, "represent the first major reversal of the trend toward ever more centralization of government in Washington." Initial congressional...
...suspected of manipulations. The SEC has also been prodding brokerage houses to clean up the continuing paperwork mess in back offices. On the major issue of overhauling commission rates, however, Budge has left it to the stock exchanges to develop detailed proposals. He believes that the SEC should only act as devil's advocate, asking questions about any proposed changes to make sure that no important considerations are overlooked. This approach annoys some high stock-exchange officials, who want specific guidance as to what sort of new schedule the SEC would accept...
...shame of modern times, with its "computers ticking, tapes and circuits and warheads, detonators, deaths, millions of deaths." Jack Kendriks, chief of the fire fighters, who at 39 feels that younger, better-educated men are catching up on him, helps Replogle escape with his poached meat, in a humanistic act of generosity from one defeated man to another...