Word: empting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough to pre-empt center stage at bourbon-and-bull sessions with Yale's faculty and students. An ear-wearying public speaker whose official utterances are frequently pedantic and dull, Brewster shines wittily in small groups, admits that conversation rather than ivory-tower concentration provides most of his ideas. "I get more stimulation...
Some firms also figure that the rising federal deficit will force the Government to pre-empt borrowable funds later in the year. Indeed, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler admitted to Congress last week that falling corporate tax revenues and climbing Pentagon spending will push this year's deficit to $11 billion, or $1.3 billion more than the Administration forecast only four months ago. Fowler also predicted that the red ink might soar to an inflationary $24 billion in election year 1968 if war costs continue to escalate or if Congress fails to raise taxes. Accordingly, Fowler asked...
3.Disclose to him those Chinese vital interest which are allegedly more important than life itself, so as to pre-empt a position ahead of time and warn him it is not negotiable...
FOOTBALL (from noon on). Because New Year's Day falls on a Sunday-and also because the pros will pre-empt the tube for their championship game on Jan. 1-the colleges and networks have decided to split the bowl games, with some Dec. 31 and the rest on Jan. 2. Today's lineups...
...Years later, when the U.S. budget had mushroomed to 25 times its pre-Roosevelt size, Senator Byrd noted wryly: "I campaigned for the New Deal platform in 1932-and I'm still standing on it." Roosevelt and Byrd quickly became enemies; F.D.R. even tried to pre-empt all federal patronage in Virginia in a conspicuously unsuccessful effort to undercut the Senator at home. Byrd never again endorsed a Democratic presidential nominee. By maintaining a "golden silence," he helped Republicans carry the Old Dominion in every presidential election from 1952 until the Johnson landslide...