Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion antipoverty bill that the Senate finally passed, 49 to 20. The cost was just about equal to the amount that the budget-conscious Administration had asked. Originally, the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee had reported out a $2.5 billion bill, and most of the floor argument blew up around how much that figure could be cut. Still to be resolved are Senate-House differences on how the money is to be allocated...
Also accepted and due for early argument are cases affecting important aspects...
...result is really a recital rather than a play. On a bleacher-sloped stage, the survivors and the accused confront not so much each other as their own benumbed memories of demonic events. The accused deny all responsibility, using the familiar argument that they were merely carrying out orders. The survivors, like men risen from the Inferno, recount horrors that, however familiar they may have become, still beggar the imagination with the terrible knowledge of what man can do to man. Those who lived draw word pictures of those who died: women whose wombs were injected with cement till they...
...summation to his argument, Kissinger said that he had very few doubts about the motivation of American policy, but often worried about the judgements of policy-makers...
...which West Germany helps compensate the U.S. for the cost of maintaining its forces there by purchasing American military equipment. The Germans have fallen $600 million in arrears on their commitment to buy $1.3 billion in U.S. arms during a two-year period ending next June. Erhard's argument is that West Germany needs no more equipment at this time, and cannot really afford to keep to its contract...