Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told Congress that it confronted "no more urgent business" than passage of his Safe Streets Act with a $100 million authorization, double the amount he requested last year. He called for a gun-control law to halt "the trade in mail-order murder" (an appeal that roused Robert Kennedy to his only applause during the 50-minute speech). To end "the sale of slavery to the young," he called for a narcotics-control act that would impose harsher penalties for the sale of LSD "and other dangerous drugs," and urged adding 219 agents to the present total...
...would be all too easy to "take the lazy path by merely sounding the alarm and putting extra bolts on our door." Added Lady Bird: "I think more of us are tired of just being shocked and talking about it. There are things responsible citizens are doing in crime control, in prevention, in legislation...
...year is out, a treaty to halt nuclear proliferation; proposed an international program to tap the ocean depths; urged "a major expansion" of both the International Development Association and the Asian Development Bank; called for "a prudent aid program rooted in the principle of self-help"; and offered birth control advice to developing lands...
...insurance companies were in the mutual-fund business. Today, the number exceeds 50. Last month Boston's John Hancock became the biggest insurance company to get into the act by announcing its own mutual fund. Last week Illinois-based Franklin Life Insurance Co. said it plans to acquire control of California's Channing Financial Corp., a holding company with properties in both mutual funds and insurance...
...course the central fact of being a student is going to school. But so far, the government has not been able to reach advanced students there to give them any great feeling of nationality. A desparate teacher shortage has kept French instructors in control of nearly all the secondary schools, and much of the say over what is going to be taught still comes from Paris. The lycees teach more Cartesian logic than Ivoirian problems, dispensing much that means little to life so far from France...