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...priority of demand and investment is still around. But liberals have shown a growing tendency to recognize the vital economic importance of investment and of the factors that investment depends upon?profits, savings, individual incentive. Along with this shift has come an awareness that burdensome taxes act as a brake upon economic growth. Businessmen have long maintained that the upper-bracket tax rates are economically pernicious, but it is a refreshing novelty when the A.F.L.-C.I.O. officially suggests, as it did a fortnight ago, that the top tax rate be slashed from the present...
...liberal doctrine, opposing the court conservatives, who used strict constitutional interpretations as weapons against New Deal legislation. But under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the court has leaned to sweepingly liberal interpretations of the Constitution's civil liberties clauses, and judicial restraint has acted as a conservative brake. Under Warren, Frankfurter repeatedly dissented from majority opinions upsetting federal or state laws. His last major dissent was from the majority opinion that brought apportionment of seats in state legislatures under the review of federal courts. He called the decision "a massive repudiation of our whole past in asserting destructively novel judicial...
...powered Flying Caduceus racing car for an assault on the world's land speed record (394.2 m.p.h.). He was up to 331 m.p.h. at the three-mile mark when the sleek red-and-chrome car suddenly veered off course. Ostich popped the eight-foot parachute brake; the Flying Caduceus skidded wildly for nearly two miles, snapped off a wheel, hopped briefly into the air and shuddered to a halt. Unhurt, Ostich surveyed the wreckage and growled: "Was I safe at first? That was a long slide...
...researchers found no physiological differences between the two types. Their blood pressures were in the same range, both at rest and under stress. In psychomotor skills (brake reaction time, vision, making split-second decisions), the high-accident men rated a notch higher than low-risk types−but in responding more quickly they also made more mistakes...
...need after dark; a marking of white or reflectorized paint or tape (area about five square inches) on lower portion of rear fender and upper portion on both sides of the front fork; a suitable bell or horn-sirens or here or whistles are not permitted; and on adequate brake...