Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economy, like any other mammoth organism, can continue to flourish only as long as its intelligence can direct its vast bulk and react to an ever-changing environment. The guidance system faltered in election year 1966, causing that rare paradox, inflation at a time of some business slow- down. Some of the problems have changed, but they remain serious enough in 1967 to pose the question: Can the nation sustain a seventh consecutive year of expanding prosperity? In his Economic Report and Budget Message to Congress last week, President Johnson answered with a qualified yes. He said the U.S. could...
Apprehension & Exile. Ky decided on a subtle ploy. On the same day that he took off for Australia and New Zealand last month, he sent Co to Taiwan, ostensibly to attend a ceremony opening direct air service from Taipei to Saigon. The decision to dismiss Co had already been made at a meeting of the military Directory a few days before, and Ky did not want Co around Saigon to spark any possible retaliatory coup in his absence. When the news of Go's downfall broke in Saigon, both the Premier and his enemy were well clear...
...concerned would commit themselves, and such lobby groups as the Electronics Industries Association and the National Association of Broadcasters can hardly be expected to approve it. The commission, on the other hand, argues that the excise tax would amount to an automatic annual subsidy from federal funds without any direct governmental control of ETV's day-to-day operations...
Though researchers have not been able to prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship between air pollution and disease, they have found that the incidence of chronic bronchitis among British mailmen who deliver mail in areas with heavy air pollution is three times as high as among mailmen who work in cleaner regions. Researchers also know that there are more deaths from chronic pulmonary disease in high-pollution areas of Buffalo than in other neighborhoods. Boston policemen working around high concentrations of carbon monoxide seem more susceptible to the common cold...
...corporations that American soldiers are forced to kill and die. No American would willingly give up his life--or even two years of it--just to protect the business interests of the few. Thus the Establishment must persuade the soldier that revolutions are Communist (i.e., evil) and constitute a direct threat to his "way of life" and the safety of our shores...