Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the week began, the Senate had just six days to act before the expiration of the Defense Production Act. A bill before the Senate, reported out by its Banking & Currency Committee, would renew most of the President's economic controls but strip away his crucial power to roll back prices, including the price of meat. A handful of Fair Dealing Democrats and like-minded Republicans fought to put back rollbacks...
...Leak. As the Government expanded, it developed a slick technique of professional pressagentry. Sometimes the pressagents do a helpful and necessary job of briefing reporters on complicated subjects. But too often they plug only the Administration's side of a crucial Government issue, hope the reporter hasn't the sense or gumption to dig up the other side. The Federal Government now employs about 5,000 full-and part-time pressagents, spends an estimated $65 million a year on salaries and printing. The payroll is still growing fast; in a year the number of pressagents in the Defense...
Through Channels. Into this labyrinth of procedure, personalities and policy, messages chatter night & day, seeking decisions, recommendations, remedies. They range from the crucial to the trivial...
...Comers. However disagreeable he may find it, his Pentagon tour of duty is often crucial for a rising young officer. The years between 30 and 35 and the rank of lieutenant colonel are critical for him. Until then, promotion is almost automatic; after those years, he has to show special abilities if he is to make the jump to higher rank. The Pentagon is a good place to make the jump...
...crucial point in the current debate about Asia is what to do about reluctant allies-give in to them, try to win them over, or if need be, go it alone. Last week, in a commencement speech at Georgetown University, Ambassador Warren Austin, U.S. Representative to the U.N., and a Republican, made the case for allies. Excerpts...