Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill before the Senate was S.2546, "authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 1970 for military procurement, research and development." The total amount involved was more than $20 billion, but only a fraction of that sum was at issue right now: $759.1 million for the first steps in deployment of the Nixon Administration's Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile defense system. After months of inconclusive hearings and angry debate, and publication of a spate of weighty books on ABM by civilian defense scholars,* the Senate settled in for its toughest fight over a military bill in memory...
Thus an escape velocity of little more than 5,000 m.p.h. (v. 25,000 m.p.h. from earth) and the use of a relatively small amount of fuel will be sufficient to launch moon rockets toward the earth and more distant planets...
They are, by and large, exceptions; attentisme is the order of the day. Many intellectuals seem overly ready to criticize, but are reluctant to act on their convictions. A prominent woman lawyer in Saigon notes that "the attentiste maintains a certain amount of honesty without enduring the rigors of outright resistance." Now, she says, "many intellectuals know what they should do, but do not have the courage to do it." She does not-perhaps typically-recommend what it is they should...
...government. All advocates agree that it is essential to make the parity changes frequent but small-perhaps 1% to 2% yearly. Sup porters believe that, under such a system, the value of a country's currency would reflect the realities of its balance of payments position and the amount of its inflation. The crawling peg would also avoid sharp devaluations and revaluations. It would thus discourage currency speculation because the gains that could be achieved from parity changes would be too small to bother about...
...good ones, it would end up becoming a Rabelaisian shopping list. Terrence Currier--who too often seemed to underplay his being the play's resident skeptic--unleashes a good, old-fashioned tenor. Ted D'Arms as Monsewer, an English anglophobe (a part almost too small for the amount of good things he puts into it) does a bit called "The Captains and the Kings" which would be the high point in any Tony Richardson film. And, as far as showstoppers, there is always Joan Tolentino's "Don't Muck About With the Moon"--which time I'm sure...