Word: cancelation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this statement of the "key problem" in hand, Banfield attacks government programs from all sides: if they are not trivial, they are ineffective; if by chance they do what they are intended to, they either ignore the central problem of poverty, aggravate it, or, at best, cancel each other out. In any case, (the final stab) effective action against poverty is politically out of the question...
...honeymoon is over," said Home, as he took the floor to blast Labor for raising taxes, strangling credit and threatening to cancel the British aircraft industry's multimillion-dollar project for the supersonic Concord airliner. Home could hardly be heard. For as he began to speak the House dissolved into a raging bedlam of angry partisans, bellowing insults at one another, shaking fists, waving sheaves of papers in the turbulent air. Amid repeated pleas for order, Sir Alec managed to charge that the Labor government had gone back on its campaign promises to revitalize Britain, turned instead to "panic...
Beyond the President's program for new legislation, there will be tussles over old familiar issues. The Senate is girding again for its usual argument over reducing the two-thirds vote required for cloture on a filibuster, and Republicans in both houses have prepared proposals that would cancel the Supreme Court's order to reapportion state legislatures on the basis of population only. Foreign aid will be a battle again. In the Senate, two top Democrats-Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Majority Leader Mansfield-are agitating to have the bill split...
Sometimes "flight" money arrives just as agents start buying the same currency to finance a coup, and the two operations cancel each other out and keep the rate steady. But it is still possible to tell when something...
Occasionally a tolerant school will use persuasion to prevent a scorching. During the Cuban missile crisis two years ago, Brandeis University urged students to behave with "good taste" and cancel an invitation to Communist Party Chairman Gus Hall...