Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outmaneuvered Opposition. The committee's approval caught the surtax's opponents by surprise. Some conservatives who oppose high taxation and spending were disarmed by the bill's bipartisan support and by the nation's growing concern about inflation. Liberals, who proposed to support the bill only in exchange for broad reform of the tax structure, were also outmaneuvered. To minimize their resistance, the committee added a provision reducing or eliminating the federal taxes of 13 million low-income people-a feature the liberals could hardly oppose. To ease the reformers' consciences further, Mills pledged...
...fount of doomsday weapons that the U.S. and Russia have been rapidly developing. Until recently, the docility of Congress toward Pentagon planning forestalled any real review of the hush-hush CBW program with its secret appropriations. Now, prompted by press reports and rumors, emboldened by the general concern over U.S. military policy, congressional investigators are demanding answers from the Pentagon. Why, in the nuclear age, does the U.S. also need chemical and biological weapons? How much is enough...
...Army's plans to send approximately 809 carloads of obsolete poison gas cross-country for disposal in the Atlantic Ocean. After a public outcry, congressional critics succeeded in halting the shipment, pending a study of alternative means of destroying or detoxifying the agent. While the immediate concern is the danger of transporting a deadly commodity by rail at a time when freight derailings are on the increase, the incident served to dramatize far more basic doubts about chemical and biological weapons. Last week President Nixon ordered a thorough review of the program by the State Department, Defense Department...
...Arab press raged, but Arafat himself was silent, apparently not wanting to show more concern for his own house than for other Arab homes blown up by the Israelis because their occupants collaborated with Al-Fatah. But on the following Sabbath eve, three bombs exploded in a side street 300 yards from the Wailing Wall, wounding three Arab civilians and an Israeli soldier...
...county courthouse. Overall, one involved Nevadan opines, there are 30 to 40 brothels, with seven to ten girls apiece, in the 15 permissive counties. The opulence (or lack of it) of these industries, and the beauty and skill of the inhabitants, are grounds for civic pride (or concern). One year, the town fathers of Wells noted that visitors seemed to be having trouble locating the red-light district, so they helpfully installed directional signs. When reactionary residents of one town kicked up a fuss because a house of ill repute was operating next door to the local school, the town...