Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other issues will emerge as Nixon presents his detailed proposals and as Democratic leaders more liberal than Mills seek to produce their own alternatives. So far, the Democrats have unveiled no grand schemes for the 91st Congress. Their main effort may well be to preserve and finance Great Society programs. Nixon is now in the process of determining how much he can safely demand-and how he can get the opposition to meet him halfway...
...known as the War of the Grand Al liance. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson adopted the rule of "pellmell" for diplomatic meetings-whoever arrived first, entered first. That solution has long since been dropped by protocol-conscious officials. Numerous efforts have been made to regulate matters of precedence. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 established four classes of diplomatic representatives (ambassadors and Papal legates; ministers plenipotentiary; ministers resident; charges d'affaires). Heads of state remained a problem; at Vienna, the conference hall had no fewer than five doors to cope with the attending monarchs...
...children. No fewer than 62 nations, including Canada and all the countries of Europe, already give family allowances. The family allowance, unlike the negative income tax, could be sold politically as a program for children rather than the poor, and thus would probably be more acceptable to Congress and the public. A "negative income tax," on the other hand, sounds like what it is, an economist's conceit, while a "guaranteed annual income" suggests featherbedding on a grand scale...
...family savings and welfare checks. Six months later, they left for a year in Europe, courtesy of a $5,000 Guggenheim fellowship. Temporary terms as poet-in-residence at Reed, San Fernando Valley State and Wisconsin, and as successor to Stephen Spender as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, have occupied him since...
...more sparingly. He believes that the Democrats have thoroughly mismanaged the economy, particularly by relying too much on changes in tax rates to "tune" the state of business. The current 10% tax surcharge helped convince him that tax increases are not only difficult to ram through a constituent-minded Congress but usually have slow effects when finally enacted. "We are beginning to realize," says McCracken, "that fiscal policy is simply not available to us in the real world to influence short-run changes in business activity...