Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazilian living in the U.S. for more than 16 years, I have come to learn what it means for American Presidents to talk about being a "friendly neighbor" to other countries. Leave the "friendly" out; put in "greedy" instead. The U.S. does not give without taking, and the taking is disproportionate...
...black I find it ludicrous that black American leaders are now preoccupied with the P.L.O. cause. I wonder how many are also concerned with the cause of blacks in Dominica, 60,000 of whom are homeless because of Hurricane David...
...American Jew, would like to ask the Zionists to explain in language Jackson can understand the difference between the P.L.O.'s denial of Israel's right to exist today and the denial by the Zionists of a similar right of Palestine prior...
...That the American arsenal needs strengthening is a proposition that has a diminishing number of dissenters, at least in Washington. There are some, like Senator Hart, who continue to argue that the Soviet threat has been exaggerated and that the Pentagon might not need all the money it has requested. Among most officials and experts, however, the debate is no longer whether to boost defense spending but how much and in what...
Such reasoning, however, could be applied to just about every expenditure by a Government bureaucracy, from the State Department's outlays for American diplomats to the battalions of inspectors employed by regulatory agencies. Moreover, whatever inflationary impact the Pentagon might have, it is relatively minor compared with that of other Government programs. Today, defense outlays are only half as much as Washington spends on social welfare programs. Says Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME's Board of Economists...