Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face up to. Johnson has diffused certain federal powers to a wider extent than is generally recognized in the poverty war, with its 1,000-odd community-action programs; in the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which encourages innovation by individual schools; in the air-and water-pollution-control acts, with their call for state-conceived programs; and in the model-cities bill, which leaves it to the mayors to tie together some 200 different federal urban programs into a coherent attack on blight. Under Johnson, moreover, private enterprise for the first time assumed an active role...
...summit and impressed him as a man to be reckoned with. Johnson ended one of the long silent spells with his now-famous "new look" press conference, during which he prowled a makeshift stage in the East Room of the White House like a restless tiger, exuding confidence and control. Before an A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in December, he lit into the Republican "wooden soldiers of the status quo" who were poleaxing his programs in Congress...
Growing Awareness. Displaying new self-confidence, the ex-colonels allowed the Greek press to print the King's statement*They were feeling good because their fears about being isolated from their NATO allies have proved to be ill-founded. Also, the latest evidence of their firm control of the country has caused reappraisals of the new Greek situation in many foreign capitals. Though no nation has recognized the new regime, most diplomats feel that recognition is not necessary anyhow, since the government has maintained at least a vestige of legitimacy by appointing a general and temporary regent and retaining...
...would create "chaos" through conflict between districts and confusion in contract negotiations; if the plan is approved, he predicts that teacher unrest would lead to "thou sands" of resignations. Most Puerto Rican and Negro civil rights organiza tions, however, strongly endorse the Bundy proposal in the hope that local control of schools will lead to better education for their children - and they now give such improvement a much higher priority than enforced integration by bussing pupils around town...
...equipment, in ventures outside the U.S. This rising annual amount brought their total overseas ante to $64.8 billion, more than the gross national product of many a nation, and eight times the amount foreign businessmen have invested in the U.S. in the 191 years of the Republic. Americans now control 80% of Europe's computer business, 90% of the microcircuit industry, 40% of its automaking, and sizable shares of chemicals, farm machinery and oil. In Britain, U.S. companies own half of all modern industry, employ one of every 17 British workingmen, manufacture 10% of all British goods for home...