Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seated in his still unfamiliar office, Moses' grey eyes sparkle as he describes plans for arranging the room--hanging plants, getting a round coffee table "so people can put their feet up," hanging a picture of Daniel Webster (Why? "He's the greatest face I have at home.")--but his excitement barely approaches that which he expresses when he describes his ideas for the freshman class...
...resolute emphasis on jobs should enhance the bill's prospects. New York Senator -Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who devised Richard Nixon's ill-fated Family Assistance Plan, recalls that any attempt to put welfare recipients-especially mothers-to work was then denounced as "slavefare." Today, Moynihan thinks, no major group exists to raise an automatic outcry against work. He credits the women's movement with changing attitudes. "Work is no longer considered to be a form of punishment as applied to women. A liberal constituency no longer finds work unattractive." Thus liberals might go along with the traditional...
...course they stole that election," said one former aide. "That's the way they did it down there. In 1941, when Lyndon ran the first time for the Senate, he went to bed one night thinking he was 5,000 votes ahead of W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, and he woke up next morning 10,000 votes behind. He learned a thing or two between...
...Sociologist Daniel Bell put it recently, "If economic growth, which has been the means of raising a large portion of the world into the middle class-and also a political solvent to meet the rising expectations of people and finance social welfare expenditures-cannot continue, then the tensions that are being generated will wrack every advanced industrial society and polarize the confrontation between the South ... and the advanced industrialized capitalist societies of the West." IMF directors would doubtless reply that that is a prophecy of apocalypse tomorrow-and they have their hands full warding off disaster...
...urging of the Ghana and other protest groups, the islands' congressional delegation has sponsored legislation to compensate native Hawaiians for lands lost after annexation-something like the 1971 grant of $962.5 million to Alaska's natives in settlement of their land claims. In addition, Senator Daniel Inouye has proposed a bill that would force the Navy to stop bombing Kahoolawe...