Word: efforts
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Richard Nixon's way is the via media. On almost every issue he has confronted since he took office, the President has steered a middle course - or zigzagged from right to left in an effort to maintain a national equilibrium. Thus in his welfare package, Nixon made a gesture to the left by advocating a minimum annual income and to the right by keeping that subsidy at $1,600 for a family of four, far below the poverty line, and insisting that recipients accept "suitable" employment or vocational training. He suggested tax reforms, but would prefer to maintain...
...final stop in the day's effort is a club where Queens District Attorney Thomas Mackell is to give a cocktail party for Procaccino. But there has been a foul-up in the schedule; Procaccino has arrived two hours early and is disinclined to wait. His entourage is invited in for a drink. "Mackell going to pay for this?" Procaccino asks. Assured that refreshments are indeed on the missing Mackell, the candidate suddenly snaps his fingers. "As long as I've got the night off," he announces, "I'll take the wife and daughter out to dinner...
Resolved, this Faculty expresses its opposition to the war in Vietnam. While as individuals we differ in detail, this body agrees that the most reasonable plan for peace is the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops. We join in a united and continuous national effort to bring our troops home...
Bellow's first goal capitalized on the poor play of the Merrimack goalie, but his second was a single-handed effort, beating the right fullback and lofting a shot that cleared the outstretched hands of the goalie and dropped into...
Strangely, this schizophrenic existence is essentially painless. Unlike the Quixote legend, illusion rarely distorts the ongoing process of reality. Similarly, reality makes no effort to cancel out the shadows of illusion. Richard Nixon's rhetoric about peace and honor frees him to fight his protracted little war, while exponentially proliferating talk of justice and the people permit us to support our tacky revolutions. As long as the two camps don't come into contact, no problem...