Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nelson Rockefeller focused more sharply on the shortcomings of centralized government. Said he: "More than 30 years of ever-expanding federal programs have proven that federal authority stands too distant from local conditions to allow efficient use of federal funds by formulas and procedures conceived in Washington. To criticize federal programs for failing to deliver on their promises, however, is not to disparage the high purposes inspiring many of these programs. But we do want to see a dollar's worth of work done for every dollar spent. Our experience in New York shows plainly that federal bypassing...
...avoid the dangers in expelling Powell, Representative Van Deerlin (D.-Cal.) has recommended that the House exclude him instead. This action would deprive the New York Congressman of his vote but would allow him to keep his seat. Such a measure is attractive but it is also unjust. It would punish Powell's district for the offenses of its congressman, leaving Harlem without a voice in the House for an indefinite period of time...
Only an ethics bill can give Congress a consistent standard for disciplining its members. In establishing definite codes of conduct for Congressmen, an ethics bill would allow Congress to punish its members quickly and decisively. And it would eliminite the dangers that Congress' motives would be misinterpreted by racial minorities and other pressure groups...
Radioisotopes are now commonly introduced into the body's various systems to allow doctors to trace functions and spot malfunctions with sensitive scanners. But radioactivity is the peril as well as the point of using the particles, reported Quinn, since too much of it during the testing can harm the patient. The ideal, therefore, is to find a radioactive substance with a short half-life that will decay quickly after passing on the information doctors need. The problem is that the unstable substances live so briefly they must be manufactured as short a time as possible before their...
...begins, "the life of an ordinary, non-Catholic parent, free to decide-actually to decide, in calm confidence-whether or not to have a child." But the Roman Catholic Church, to which the Applebys adhere, and the rhythm method, to whose uncertain discipline they reluctantly submit, allow no such latitude. Their first child arrived nine months after the wedding, followed, at similar intervals, by two more. And now, dabbing queasily at the breakfast bacon, Adam's wife congeals his spirit with the announcement that they may have lost another round of Vatican Roulette...