Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size and shape of negotiating tables is another problem that has confounded many a diplomat. At the 1959 Geneva Conference of the Big Four, a protracted dispute was finally ended when the U.S., Russia, Britain and France agreed to sit at a round table while the East and West Germans sat at small, square, separate tables precisely six pencil widths from the main table. To solve the present impasse in Paris, some officials have suggested that no formal tables be used-but then the negotiators would argue over the size and shape of the coffee tables that would be needed...
...tumbling workers from their chairs and tossing mounds of paper work onto the floor. In Boston, 50 others staged a raucous sit in at the Massachusetts Statehouse, refusing to budge until police carted them away. Forty-four more were arrested last week in Cleveland when they took over the big welfare offices on St. Clair Avenue. Such demonstrations by the welfare poor have become commonplace. Even as politicians and taxpayers bitterly complain about spiraling welfare budgets, those on the receiving end are demanding-and receiving-far more...
...important program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, New York State offers benefits of $71.75 per person, as compared with $8.50 in Mississippi. No one knows how much the wide welfare gap between North and South has contributed to the migration of poor Southern Negroes to big-city ghettos-but it must have been a factor...
...take care of the childless poor, while the negative income tax could not really be administered, as its proponents sometimes claim, with only a small addition to the staff of the Internal Revenue Service. For one thing, money would have to be handed out monthly or weekly, a big chore that would cause rather substantial changes in the IRS bureaucracy. The negative income tax would have a further practical drawback. Middle-income workers would not benefit at all, as they would with family allowances, and they would undoubtedly balk at paying taxes to subsidize people who earn only...
...forceful contender in his own right. He began planning his campaign two years ago, and assembled a cadre of 15,000 field workers, who reported weekly. Caldera appealed to poorer voters who had previously voted the white card by promising more aid to them. In the end, however, his big vote came from the middle class-and from young new voters. The Green Giant's militant youth organizers, called Green Berets, wooed voters who had turned 18 since the last election. And the party, perhaps, won some votes-as well as many a ribald observation-with a Caldera proposal...