Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, for all his prestige, Old Harry Byrd's influence was greatly exaggerated. For despite his uncompromising fiscal orthodoxy, Byrd ran his committee according to his own courtly code. He refused to block the liberal bills he abhorred, and eschewed the quid pro quo tactics by which more ambitious politicians achieve their ends. Yet Byrd, as one Administration aide puts it, "was like a yellow blinker. You had to slow down when...
...that began the round of wage increases. Since then, more inflationary tendencies have continued to appear in the economy. Johnson looked beyond aluminum to the steel industry, which many economists believed was getting up courage for a price rise, and realized that he would not be able to block any steel increase unless he did something about aluminum. Assured by Chief Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley that the aluminum industry's profits were high and that any price rise would be unjustified, he set out to force back the 10 price rise to 25? per Ib.-which still left...
...voice was cracked and harsh, his eyes as hollow as his campaign coffers. Yet even as New Yorkers streamed to the polls, John Vliet Lindsay loped urgently from block to block, borough to borough, croaking a threnody that had become as familiar and unique to the streets of New York as the carp of cab drivers or the yawp of fire trucks...
...never-ending crime-a theft every three minutes, an assault every twelve, a rape every six hours, a murder every 14-' Lindsay proposed to enlarge the police force and build a "massive mobile patrol system" by doubling the number of patrol cars; a squad car would patrol each block in high-crime areas every two minutes...
...Barka's followers in Morocco charged that he had fallen victim to a conspiracy of right-wingers within the Rabat government, who wanted to block any chance of a reconciliation between the King and Moroccan leftists -something for which Hassan has been ardently working. A part of the reconciliation plan calls for a full pardon for Ben Barka and his eventual return to Morocco. But there were just as many reasons for believing a handful of other hypotheses, including one that members of his own party had pulled the snatch to keep Ben Barka from returning to Morocco...