Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mounting pressures. The reform harks back half a century in spirit to 1918, when Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points proclaimed the self-determination of peoples and enabled Czechoslovakia to be born as an independent state. This time, Czechoslovakia was announcing its own self-determination-a determination to regain control of its destiny and shuck off the worst features of an alien Communist system...
Riklis took first aim at Schenley's eccentric founder, chairman and controlling stockholder, Lewis Solon Rosenstiel, 76. The prospects hardly seemed promising. Rosenstiel had declared that 'I will probably never retire," and had exploded other merger deals. By last week, Riklis was closer to his goal than many an observer thought he ever would be-though ultimate control of Schenley was still much in doubt...
...until the Administration has slashed nonmilitary spending, President Johnson two weeks ago agreed to a reduction of as much as $9 billion in his budget. Such a cut would affect foreign aid, the space program, the supersonic jet, and some or all of $1.5 billion in the highway, flood-control, and federal building programs...
First, the much heralded McCarthy "win" in New Hampshire cost Johnson only twenty delegate votes. A recent New York Times survey showed Johnson still in control of, or likely to control almost two-thirds of the convention's delegates. The media, however, in focusing so closely on New Hampshire, make Johnson's fall appear imminent, if not inevitable, and the President, in recent speeches, has even tried to project an image of himself as the underdog. Particularly since the New Hampshire, primary immediately preceeds the Wisconsin race, in which McCarthy has always been expected to do well, Johnson himself...
...Rossi did was throw strikes. Against Richmond during his senior year in 1964, Del Rossi threw 102 pitches: 82 were strikes. This uncanny control was the primary reason he compiled a phenomenal 30-3 record as a Crimson hurler and earned a place as the foremost pitcher in Harvard history...