Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate's new Rule XXII was the personal product of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. As such, it represented a middle way between the Senate's Southerners, who hold with the idea of limitless debate, and Senate liberals, who would impose cloture at the drop of a drawl. The Johnson-sponsored rule will...
...Drop from the old Rule XXII a provision that, in effect, barred cloture on a motion to change the Senate rules...
...single tablet sensitizes the patient so fast that if he takes a drink within as little as ten minutes he will feel flushed and short of breath, and get a headache-all severely enough to make him turn against the bottle. Unlike disulfiram, CCC rarely causes vomiting, a marked drop in blood pressure, or other undesirable side effects. But the effects of CCC usually wear off faster, so if the alcoholic misses his medicine for a couple of days, he may fall off the wagon...
...gross national product, the nation's No. 1 economic growth indicator, has a serious flaw. It does not allow for inflation. When prices and production are both swooping up, the G.N.P. greatly overstates the rate of growth of the U.S. economy. When production sags, it understates the drop, since prices tend to hold up. To counteract these price distortions, the Commerce Department brought out a new indicator. Henceforth, along with the regular quarterly G.N.P. expressed in dollars of current value, the department will publish a G.N.P. showing what the actual change would have been if the G.N.P. had been...
...This is not necessarily a bad sign," Albert Haertlein '16, associate Dean of Engineering and Appiled Physics, asserted. "It is or greater benefit to the nation to have people in the fields they are most interested in." He emphasized that most students who drop engineering lack skill, not interest...