Word: attacking
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...environment), he can control crime by locking everyone up or executing the murderers, and he can lower taxes (although he isn't going to take "band-aids" away from anyone.). Frank Hatch, being the nice guy that he is, hasn't come out with a strong enough attack plan. He's too honest to tell people he will cut property taxes by $500 million; he points out that prisons are going to get awfully full if you just try and lock everyone up for life. In his typically father-like manner, Hatch tries to explain to King about such things...
Despite these plaudits, there were some serious objections. Most critics had three main complaints about Carter's program: 1) it does not include an all-out and specific attack by Carter on Government spending; 2) it does nothing to influence the supply of money, which usually grows along with federal spending and is thus a major cause of inflation; 3) it does not provide for any real enforcement of the wage-price guidelines...
...talk before, some strong and some gentle. WilHam Tecumseh Sherman, the man who later marched to the sea, was married there in 1850. One day in 1861 at breakfast, Navy Captain David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...
Washington so far has balked at this tradeoff. Reason: such a limitation would infuriate key U.S. allies, notably West Germany and Britain, which count on these weapons for a credible defense against Soviet attack. NATO could be seriously weakened if West Europeans think their security is being ignored by the U.S. in its bilateral dealings with Moscow...
...death in 1953, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev, eventually serving as one of the party chiefs Deputy Premiers. During the Cuban missile crisis it was Mikoyan whom Khrushchev sent to Fidel Castro to explain his "compromise" with President Kennedy. A survivor by instinct, Mikoyan initiated the now famous attack against Stalin at the party's 20th Congress in 1956 and, eight years later, helped depose Khrushchev. Eased out of office at age 70, Mikoyan enjoyed an honorable retirement...