Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diefenbaker's legislative program was shaped to offer something for everyone-and nothing, so the Tories hoped, to unify the opposition to the point of making common cause. Mainly, his proposals sought to attack the chronic economic ills that last June forced Ottawa to impose a belt-tightening austerity program to ease Canada's imbalance of international payments. The Tories promised to balance the budget (after five straight deficits), to create 1,000,000 new jobs in the next five years, and to set up a brain-trusting National Economic Development Board to plan economic growth...
...think this opinion may be proved incorrect by the example of the so-called Westford Project. This was the proposal to girdle the earth with a belt of fine metal needle, thus forming an artificial ionosphere to be used for long-distance communications. The International Astronomical Union, including the U.S. delegation, condemned the Westford experiment because of its probable deleterious effect on radio astronomical observations...
...defense of the nation, but in the United States the decision to implement these plans has traditionally been reserved for civilians. It is unfortunate that the foundation of civilian control is now being eroded by the predominance of military sources of scientific information. The creation of a new belt of ionizing radiation may be considered a military misfortune; if son, let us hope never to see a disaster. Paul R. Chernoff...
...only solution to hopeless overcrowding of Cambridge streets may be construction of an Inner Belt highway through the City. At least this is the theory of many members of the Planning Board...
Unfortunately, the Cambridge City Council has consistently been opposed to most proposed routes for the Belt highway, and the Turnpike will be finished long before any realistic Belt highway can be constructed...