Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legislature, where they were opposed both by Democrats and by the outstate, ultra-conservative Republicans who have dominated both houses. Michigan, which Republicans often call labor-dominated, still does not have a minimum wage law, although Romney has again promised one for this year. Romney's one attempt to assert state over federal power ended when the state Attorney-General, a Democrat, ruled it unconstitutional; thus the state takes no advantage of federal aid to dependent children of the unemployed...
...which looks good in an annual report, means that 80% of what business spends for capital equipment goes for more laborsaving devices. Automation often creates new jobs-but it is eliminating old jobs even faster (at a rate of 200,000 a month, says the Labor Department). Statisticians gloomily assert that every rise of 3% in productivity means that 1,800,000 new jobs must be found for workers who are displaced. Administration economists are still committed to the belief that the best way to lessen unemployment is by stimulating production and consumer buying through a tax cut. With...
...Playboy Antics." After whittling down the dollars, the Senators had some strong opinions on how the remaining money should be used. Minority Whip Tom Kuchel proposed that no funds should go to nations that try to assert exclusive fishing rights beyond the three-mile off-shore limit recognized by the U.S. "What has happened off the coast of South America is positively shocking," said Alaska's Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, referring to harassment of U.S. fishermen by Ecuador, Chile and Peru. "It is time for the United States to crack down hard." The amendment carried...
Craig's next stop was French Lick, Ind. Speaking to the Indiana bar association, he argued that the lawyer's ethical responsibilities go beyond mere observance of the rules in the code of professional ethics. The lawyer must be "a guardian of due process," must "assert leadership in the struggle to maintain the philosophy of freedom under law," must accept a responsibility to help "educate our young people to the merit and genius of our complex form of Government...
Secondly, there is a small body of students who assert that nothing effective can now be done to avert a bloody clash between Black and White nationalisms. These students believe that a situation analogous to Algeria will ultimately develop in South Africa, and that in the end the present White racist government will be supplanted by a harsh Black racist government. These students leave the country or lapse into cynicism...