Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory was a qualified one, however. Nixon was required to do more last-minute, personal lobbying than he has done for any bill so far in his Administration, and he thus incurred obligations that he might later find burdensome. Nor is Senate approval of the tax extension by any means certain. A Senate majority probably cannot be collected unless comprehensive tax reform is coupled with the surtax. Nixon was compelled to promise support for a reform bill this year, but whether a combined bill acceptable to all factions in both houses and the Administration can be worked out quickly...
...anything be done to break through or by-pass the bulwarks...
...branches of the Federal Government and of the states to aggressive protection of the rights of the individual." Leon Friedman, co-editor of a forthcoming history entitled The Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-1969, describes the change in another way: "The magic thing that the court has done is to have initiated a new moral sense in the country, a direction that the legislative and executive branches of government had failed to take. The Supreme Court used to be the anchor of the ship of state. Now it functions as the rudder...
...three years and has prematurely expanded credit. It is not likely to do so again until the signs are unmistakably clear that inflation has been reversed. The latest readings of the consumer price index and the leading indicators suggest that what the Federal Reserve and the Nixon Administration have done so far is right. Now the Administration can demonstrate political courage by continuing on course, and Congress can do the same by maintaining the surtax...
...surprising number of antitrust experts, others argue that if all mergers among the 200 biggest companies are forbidden, inefficient managements in those companies will be freed from any fear of takeover. There is also something disquieting about the idea of the Government attacking companies not because they have done anything wrong but because some day they might. A doctrine that would allow the Government to flail at big mergers also includes temptations for arbitrary action. Some businessmen, for example, have suggested that it is not entirely coincidence that one primary target of the trustbusters is James Ling, the conglomerate chief...