Word: distresse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outbeautifying Lady Bird. He condemns Johnson's war on poverty, for example, as a "pitifully inadequate and misdirected" rearguard action that is bound to fail because it treats the symptoms rather than the causes of distress. Brooke advocates "an all-out, unqualified massive attack on the conditions which doom many Americans." He would increase relief payments, expand unemployment and minimum-wage coverage, "retool our total approach to education," and seriously consider a guaranteed annual wage at Government expense. He would even outdo Lady Bird with a "massive clean-up-and-beautify-America program...
...Stress & Distress...
While we realize that, if the College is in real financial distress, it would be useless to protest the raise in rates per cent, we feel that strong efforts ought to be made to improve some of the outstanding defects in present and future living conditions at Radcliffe. First, what specifically caused the change in room rates? Perhaps a cost efficiency analysis of Radcliffe's use of funds would show that the necessary money could be procured some other way, leaving off-campus living intact...
...Scranton's time since the 1964 election has been spent minding the Statehouse store in Harrisburg-and minding it well, despite a few tussles with the Democratic-controlled lower house. Scranton can claim credit for promoting considerable industrial expansion in a state that had been experiencing some economic distress. In a period when governmental deficits are common, he has moved Pennsylvania's budget well into the black. This record, like his secure power base at home, will be very comforting if he takes another run at the presidency...
...that depict 19th century ironmaking, and Bertelsmann, the Westphalian publishing house, will give hampers filled with Westphalian ham, pumpernickel and Steinhagen, a German gin. France's Banque Dupont will send a classic Eversharp desk set with two pens. Dujar-din, the cognac maker, is distributing an auto distress kit complete with blinking light. NK, Sweden's leading department store, sends out an LP record called "Music from Creative Sweden," while the Skandinaviska Bank distributes great straw plant baskets containing a miniature garden of Sweden's favorite Christmas indoor plants...