Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most hopeful aspect about the rash of public strikes is that they have injected new and sorely needed urgency into the search for solutions. Investigation proceeds in a wide range. Some suggestions have been heard that existing strike penalties are not severe enough to deter strikes and should be increased. Advocates of this position refer to the example of John L. Lewis' 1946 coal miners' walkout, in which a $700,000 fine, imposed by the U.S. Government, effectively throttled the strike...
...Soviets have a long way to go before they catch up with their American teachers. They lag far behind in perhaps the most important aspect of all: combat experience. Many Western experts refuse to rate the Soviet navy as a truly efficient seapower until its untested officers have been called upon to handle their complicated modern weaponry under combat conditions. Nor have the Russians yet mastered the sophisticated technique of refueling and replenishing their ships while under way, as U.S. ships do. Thus, they must spend great amounts of time in sheltered anchorages where they would be easy targets...
...revitalize investor confidence. Admittedly these have been done. There is more building going on in the City of Boston at this moment than in any city in America--that's by dollar volume in relation to per square yard area and in relation to population served. The third aspect of the program was to endeavor to have the Commonwealth assume its fair share of the responsibility for the City...
...third aspect of the program which I set out to accomplish in 1959 led to my fight for the sales tax, not because I wanted to make enemies with the tax, but because it was the only tax which could be enacted to bring about some state assistance with some of the great burden, since no one would then put in an income tax. It was passed...
Vaughn stressed the flexibility of the Peace Corps administration, pointing out that Peace Corps training "no longer has the boot camp aspect...