Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again urged Congress to pass the East-West trade bill, which it rejected last year and is even less likely to adopt in 1967. For good measure, Johnson even spoke understandingly of Red China's need for "security and friendly relations with her neighboring country." He pointedly refrained from announcing any decision to build a U.S. anti-missile system-a peaceable gesture he followed up at week's end with a message to Moscow that urged the Russians to defer deploying their own anti-missile defense in the interest of furthering world disarmament. "We have the solemn duty...
McCormack and Albert suffered an other defeat on the House floor when Republicans, led by Gerald Ford, mustered a 224-196 vote against a Democratic move to adopt the same procedural rules that had governed the 89th Congress. It was a big show of muscle on a minor matter, and a clear portent of the ambuscades ahead...
...aftermath, Negroes from Julian Bond to Stokely Carmichael denounced the House's action. Even notably moderate, responsible Negro leaders such as Martin Luther King were angered, contending that Powell is not the only Congressman deserving of censure-and indeed nobody expected a stampede by Congress to adopt a long-needed, enforceable code of conduct for all. In New York City, save-Powell propaganda was mailed out under cover of stationery bearing the mark, and postal meter cancellation, of Harlem's Powell-ruled HarYou-Act agency, which is financed in part by federal funds. Civil rights Patriarch A. Philip...
...Urged New York and New Jersey to adopt more stringent controls over what one HEW official described as "the worst, most critical" air pollution in the U.S. The air is so foul, said a Public Health Service official, that "if it were subject to the pure food and drug laws, it would be illegal to ship it interstate because it's unfit for human consumption." Or for anything else, in fact: a study showed that Cleopatra's Needle, a stone obelisk in Manhattan's Central Park...
Participatory democracy means the equal right to make decisions affecting one's own life. In concrete terms it means that the Negro community will reject outside help unless specifically requested. Similarly, developing countries might decide to accept foreign aid or adopt Western institutions only when they wanted...