Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin was "a separate political entity." But now the East Germans, eager as always to assert their identity as a sovereign and equal German state, claim that West Berlin is on their soil and belongs to them. They thus regard West German political activity in West Berlin as a direct provocation against their own independence...
...party in most cases had schemed to bring them about. After the Congress Party's initial setbacks in the 1967 state elections, the four states -West Bengal, Punjab, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh-had ended up with weak, ineffectual governments, which Indira subsequently suspended, placing the states under direct President's Rule. After a period of political fence mending, Indira hoped that her party would regain its dominance in the new elections...
What other policies? Beyond the classic tools of high taxes, tight money, steep interest rates and restraint on Government spending, the most direct way to fight inflation without increasing unemployment would be outright federal controls on wages and prices. Paul A. Samuelson of M.I.T., a liberal economist, says that controls should be "saved for emergencies"; most officials shudder at their use under any. circumstances. In a letter to the Washington Post last week, Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith argued for revival of the Johnson Administration's voluntary wage-price guideposts, "or something similar." Yet, as Johnson learned, such...
...became more direct. One part of her copy had rather shyly allowed that Pristeen is for "the most girl part of you." Later on, when the research results came in, she edited that to "the most girl part of you-the vaginal area...
...tactics for last Thursday were similar to those of the rest of the week. They called for three groups of students--one to picket classes, one to march in front of the chancellor's office, and one to move around on streets blocking traffic. The blacks gave only three direct instructions, "Remain mobile, don't panic, don't get maced." Students were supposed to show their numbers but not to demonstrate their force, for the blacks needed only numbers to win the psychological battle with the university over the popularity of their demands...