Word: credited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minh Trail often lasted four to six months, during which many perished of disease, malnutrition and exhaustion. If a trooper survived that trek, he had proved himself strong indeed?and there seems little question that the spirit imparted by Uncle Ho deserved a share of the credit. Ho's successors may be able to keep that spirit alive for a time, but not forever. It remains to be seen whether, once the memory of Ho fades, the soldier from the North will prove as inadequately motivated as the one from the South. Certainly, the possibility is of concern to Uncle...
...taxes would still be excused from paying anything, Kennedy reckoned. Despite his proposal to cut the basic corporate income tax, Kennedy would keep most of the House bill's provisions that raise business taxes. The biggest such provision is the proposed elimination of the investment tax credit that now saves businesses $2.7 billion a year...
...passes without firm evidence of impending victory in the war against inflation intensifies the debate over the Nixon Administration's economic strategy. As the debate grows louder, it also grows more confused. Milton Friedman and other "monetarist" economists warn that the Federal Reserve Board may already have tightened credit enough to raise a threat of "severe economic contraction." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith insist that the restraints are ineffective and that only some form of wage and price control can slow price increases...
...first post was vice president in charge of television sets. Later he took over Hilton's Carte Blanche, lifting the credit-card operation from a $9,000,000 hole and making it profitable...
...wondered whether it was a stunt, an acting challenge or another bold foray into the territory of the taboo. The danger was that the pair would nance it up and produce a heterosexual parody of homosexual mannerisms-a kind of male pseudo-female impersonation act. It is to the credit of all concerned that Staircase is nothing of the sort. The foremost of the film's quiet, unobtrusive virtues is that it never caricatures or snickers or casts its two deviates outside the circle of the human family...